By law, a hospice may only accept terminally ill clients. Terri is not terminally ill. Laws mean nothing here.
Precisely, you have just identified another federal regulatory justification for the Bush administration to remove her from the facility by force like Clinton's kidnapping of Elian. It is all about the political and moral will to do something. Bush has sufficient political will to ignore what the majority of us want on immigration because, we are told, he truly believes the illegal immigrants only come here to do the jobs American's wont do. Well, we will now find out what he truly believes about what protections Americans deserve against government and court ordered murder of disabled citizens.