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Oxygen. >> jeff, legally, what are the big issues here? >> i think there is a factual issue in many more respects more important or determines the legal issue. that's what you're talking about with sanjay, whether she has any cognitive function at all. any judge will want that question answered first. it won't be enough simply to have her parents say we know we can communicate with her. they will need an independent evaluation whether she is like terri schiavo, completely in a persistent vegetative state or like some people with als, tony judd, the writer, who's been writing recently about his...

Evaluation whether she is like terri schiavo, completely in a persistent vegetative state or like some people with als, tony, judd, the writer, who's been writing recently about his experience with als, that she would certainly have more right to access if she had cognition. if she didn't -- >> if she had some level of cognition, she would have a greater legal right to access to her kids? >> she would have a greater legal right and they would have certain rights to have a relationship with their mother. if she really is incapable of any kind of communicative activity, i think the ex-husband wo...

And then from there, have the children go with their father if he wants to accompany them to south carolina, where they can see their mother for essentially the first time. >> joe johns, cnn, washington. let's dig deeper into legal and medical issues surrounding this case, cnn senior legal analyst and sanjay gupta. abbie's parents are saying she responds by blinking in response to questions. does that give any indication of the state her brain is actually in? >> if in fact she was able to respond, hear some sort of command and make some sort of movement, in this case, blinking of the eye, to...

Their own talents in their own kind of ways. >> i can see why. that is beautiful. thanks so much, josh. all right. it is a landmark settlement for more than a billion dollars. so why is it leaving the nation's african-american farmers feeling frustrated and disappointment? first, april begins this week. for christians this is holy week. jews begin celebrating passover this week. hear some of what happened this week in history. one year ago this week in 2009, general motors ceo rick wagoner resigned under white house pressure. five years ago in 2005, pope john paul ii died at the age of 84....

This woman. at age 26. she collapsed under medically murky circumstances and she fell into a coma and never came out of it. she is totally nonresponsive for years in a persistent vegetative state and she was in that state for a decade. for ten years before a court ruled that her husband, as her legal guardian could make the decision after a decade in the state that her feeding tube could be removed. he said she had been clear about her wishes before she became ill. she would have never wanted to be kept alive artificially with a feeding tube, especially for more than ten years. so the husband ...