The hospice is acting as a prison, complete with guards....to keep her family out. Terri is responsive. She feels pain. There is testimony that she communicates pain. She responds to her mother. She smiles. She cries. She tries to speak, in fact she was starting to say a few words at one point. She is severely disabled. There have been many doctors who have testified that she could be rehabilitated to some extent, that she could be taught to eat, that she could be taught to communicate.
Her so called husband, who has been in adulterous relationships since not too long after Terri's initial trauma, only allowed her to have therapy until he got the award for malpractice, which, incidentally, he was awarded specifically for the purpose of Terri's rehabilitation and every penny of which he tearfully swore to the jury he would spend for that purpose. Once that money was safely pocketed, he began denying Terri ANY therapy, ANY environmental stimulation, very limited contact with the only people who are looking out for her. Until that time, she had been improving. She went for outings in a wheel chair, to the mall and home for holidays. When her wheel chair broke, he refused to replace it.....or to allow anybody else to replace it. He has kept her a prisoner.
The healthiest of people would suffer tremendously under the stress of the kind of deprivation this man has subjected Terri to. Her parents want to take her home and care for her. They want to get her the therapy she has long been denied. There are specialists who have volunteered to treat Terri without cost and whatever costs are incurred, her parents are willing to pay.
There is a lot of evidence that her "husband" is responsible for her being injured in the first place. The money that was supposed to go for Terri's care has gone instead into paying a legal hitman to have her killed, or to finish the job he started 13 years ago, as the case may be. It is entirely possible that he can't afford to have her learn to communicate too well. And even if he wasn't responsible for her "injuries," he is guilty of abuse and neglect of a disabled person as well as of misusing funds allocated for her care. He gave up his "right" as next of kin when he started bedding and producing children with another woman. He has, and has had for most of that 13 years, clear conflicts of interest. Finally, after all these years, Terri's parents are going to get to present their case.
This picture is how Terri looked BEFORE Michael Schiavo withdrew all therapy, even the most basic comfort and hygiene care, from her.
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The second one is how she looked around the time Michael got the award for her treatment.
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And finally, how she looks now.
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Do you still believe it is acceptable to kill her?