Of course the legal issues are on MS's side. Since when did the conservative party want to get into the sanctity of marriage? It has always been a husband's perogative (for want of a better word) to make medical decisions for his wife, on the advice of doctors, since time began.
People may not like it and they may not like him. But that's the way it is.
And the goverment getting between what has previously been a quiet family matter handled with their doctors is almost obscene to me. This has people in my community seething. We are mostly retired, staunchly conservative people here and we have lots of time and talk, talk, talk (mostly politics and food) and I've only met one person who thinks what Congress did is a good thing.
When Michael beat Terri and broke her ribs, etc., he wasn't performing a medical procedure. And starving a woman to death is not a medical procedure. No doctor in history has ever prescribed murder as a medical procedure--well, maybe Dr. Mengele. You are indulging in Orwellian language-twisting.