"The first quote involved a bad joke and used the verb 'is.' The second quote involved the response from Terri Schiavo, which used the word 'are,'" Greer wrote in his decision. "The court is mystified as to how these present tense verbs would have been used some six years after the death of Karen Ann Quinlan."
LOL, Greer, the blind justice in so many ways.
On your tag line, we have many years of personal experience feeding our son who was far worse than Terri. Doctors insisted on feeding tubes for decades, and we persisted. It is not rocket science either, rather simple, if requiring patience.
Swallow is a basic function even our son had. Terri can swallow saliva and can sure swallow carefully prepared food, with just a tiny bit of loving care. I haven't the slightest doubt Terri would be on a healthy regime of mouth fed food almost immediately. They have a lousy and easily disproved excuse.