"I believe like you do. Nothing will ever make this right.
Terri is dead, killed in the most cruel way. I don't
think this country will ever be the same. We've crossed
a line that most do not even see."
Is Terri the first case to ever have a feeding tube removed? What exact "line" was crossed on this particular day?
If you don't know in your heart, no one can explain it to you.
The state ordered the death of a citizen convicted of nothing without knowing what caused her cardiac arrest, what her state of consciousness was definitively and in direct opposition to her parents wishes. That is the line that was crossed.
Beyond that, here's the line that was crossed: Judge Greer is the first Judge to write a Court Order mandating that a disabled American be starved and dehydrated. He signed a death warrant for a ward of the state for her estranged husband. There's the line that was crossed.