And what of the doctor who was appointed by the State of Florida as her guardian ad litem.
My point that I think many here are missing is that the removal of Terri's feeding tube is perfectly legal and even though I do not agree that it is moral or ethical it has been done and she will most likely die.
So I guess the big question is what can be done to prevent this from happening again?
Sadly I don't think much can be done. Abortion is legal, starving the brain damaged is legal.
The only think that makes this case noteworthy in a legal sense is that she doesn't have a living will and her wish to not be kept alive under these conditions is hearsay.
The doctor appointed as guardian ad litem was NOT allowed access to ALL of Terri's medical records.
Gee, wonder why.
You mean Jay Wolfson? I recall he openly stated that he was against Terri's law even before he met her.
What should happen would be for doctors who want Terri alive to be allowed some reasonable period of time to work with Terri to develop a protocol where she can respond in clearly distinguishable non-reflexive manners to some stimuli. Once they have discovered a set that works well, allow Michael or whomever to select a random sequence in which stimuli will be prevented. Give a transcription of Terri's responses, with the actual stimuli obscured, to another pro-Terri person to try to identify the sequence in which the stimuli were prevented.
This is a test which no amount of wishful thinking would allow Terri to pass if she was PVS, but which would at the same time give Terri the benefit of being tested by people who want her to live.