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Her life -- what there is of it -- has become a prop in an especially grotesque bit of public theater. Right-to-lifers have made her a poster child for their belief that Big Government, not families and their doctors, should resolve painful questions of life and death.

What a crook of crap. Her family wants her to live. Its only the slimeball alledged abusive husband who has squandered away hundreds of thousands of dollars that was supposed to be for Terri and who now has a new honey, who wants to kill Terri. Until Terri can speak for herself, it should be her loved ones who make the decision, not some guy who is motivated to get Terri out of the picture.

"But that part of her brain that controls feeling, thinking, and most motor functions has been destroyed"

The point is that no one knows if the above statement is true or false. No therapy has ever been tried. In fact all therapy has been withheld. The smallest therapy - putting a washcloth in her hand so that her muscles don't atrophy has been denied.

if she can't feel or think, the whole reasoning that the Husband is using to kill her is not relevant. If Terri is in no pain, and if she is unable to think, then why would it matter to husband, if the parents tried everything they could to help Terri improve before he pulled the plug?

Oh yea - there is that pesky little matter of money isn't there? He would have to wait years for the life insurance money and what money is left in the fund would be used for therapy.

How arrogant the right to murder crowd is. They presume to know that people such as Terri do not want to live. They define quality of life on mere physical terms. If Terri is allowed to be murdered, simply on the basis that she is brain damaged and can't feed herself, I submit to you that millions of people's lives are in jeopardy.

Had Michael tried every type of therapy and this was the way Terri was at the end of exhausting every medical means known to man, I think you would not see the anger, passion and outrage that exits.

Terri has something that can't be given or withheld by Michael, it is the will to live.