[bjs1779]

Amendment 14, Section 1:
All persons born or naturalized in the United States, and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United States and of the State wherein they reside. No State shall make or enforce any law which shall abridge the privileges or immunities of citizens of the United States;

nor shall any State deprive any person of life, (except Terri Schiavo) liberty,(except Terri Schiavo) or property(except Terri Schiavo), without due process of law; nor deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws.

[conserv13]

without due process of law; nor deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws.

The case was in court for years. Terri had plenty of due process.

[newzjunkey]

She had due process of law. Terri the individual was effectively dead. Those videos were staged by parents who were out for revenge because the husband wouldn't split the settlement money with them. Check the time line, it wasn't until then that they turned on him. The husband did all that could be done with medical science to try to improve Terri's state. Read the autopsy. There was no Terri left, just an empty shell with no hope.

She was allowed to expire and now truly at peace.

Since she was not in need of anything except artificial means of nutrition, I think there was arguably a moral fault with removing those means. It wouldn't matter if removing such nutrition been her written wish or not, the moral dilemma would still exist. The courts (and there were multiple involved) determined her wishes under the law despite interference, protestations, propaganda, etc. If anything, she got more due process than nearly any one in similar circumstance.

The husband did not murder. He may have killed, but it wasn't murder. The moral of the story is get yourself a living will if you want to avoid the potential becoming another case like Mrs. Schiavo.