I've never alleged anything like that. My concern is that her blood family wants to take her home and care for her - including the mother who gave her birth. Why shouldn't they be allowed to? Her husband has a new wife - a common law wife - and two kids by her. His claim to have Terri's interest at heart is severely compromised by the fact his two kids can't take his name - they're illegitimate - as long as he remains married to Terri and Terri remains alive. The family haven't "moved on with their life" -- Terri is still their blood relative and they haven't replaced her, as it were, with another. But Michael has. As Larry King asked - and Ann Coulter seconded - why can't Michael just move on with his life and let her go? Let her mother take care of her, as she is begging to do?
At first that's what I would have liked to see happen. Have Michael let the family take her in. But I've changed my mind.
#1. In 1990 Terri's parents did take her in and were "overwhelmed" (their word) and returned her to Rehab. There's no reason to believe that 15 years older they are more prepared for the hardship.
#2. Michael has been found credible by several courts and judges when he says that he promised his wife, if there was no other hope, that she would live on tubes, etc. I believe he's trying to carry that promise out. I know most freepers don't believe him.
#3. Michael had finally had it when the Schindlers testified to the following. He said something like, "I'll never let that happen."
Court testimony provided by members of the Schindler family included very personal statements about their desire and intention to ensure that Theresa remain alive . . . at any and all costs. Nearly gruesome examples were given, eliciting agreement by family members that in the event Theresa should contract diabetes and subsequent gangrene in each of her limbs, they would agree to amputate each limb and would then, were she to be diagnosed with heart disease, perform open-heart surgery. Within the testimony, as part of the hypothetical presented, Schindler family members stated that even if Theresa had told them of her intention to have artificial nutrition withdrawn, they would not do it.