"I for one would want my feeding tube yanked if I were in Terrri's condition"
Oh, so if a burglar comes to you tonite, konks you out, you wake up unable to swallow tomorrow, and your family wants to care for you, but your spouse who has been engaged to SOMEONE ELSE SINCE 1996 and has two children by her, won't let them, and makes the decisions not to give you therapy and instead starve and dehydrate you to death??? That's what you want?
Well that Is Terri's condition.
It's hard when your sick,yes. But does the state have the right to disregard its own and federal laws and deprive anyone of their life?
"and makes the decisions not to give you therapy and instead starve and dehydrate you to death??? That's what you want? "
If I was in the state Terris is for 15 years I certainly would
"But does the state have the right to disregard its own and federal laws and deprive anyone of their life?"
Does the State have the right to make medical decisions for me that I would like a legally designated person to make for me if I'm unable to?