There's not much time left to save Terri, but should she die, there is much that needs to be done to prevent this being done to others.
We need judicial reform. The legislative and executive branches must exert their co-equal status.
We need laws that prevent the withdrawal of hydration and nutrition without an advance directive, and that prevent a spouse from exercising medical oversight when the spouse has obvious, significant conflicts of interest, like a common-law wife.
Finally, we need judges and justices that will overturn abhorrent decisions like Cruzan and Roe.
Food and water are not medical care, and we cannot allow the "right-to-kill" crowd to misuse them as a means to carry out euthanasia by other means. That, more than anything else, is what this case is all about.
My question is--how often does this happen? To be more precise, how often does this happen in Pinellas County, and how many of these cases might Greer have handled?
We must change the laws that permit this kind of torture.