"Do you believe that the average American, once appraised of the real situation, would support what the courts are doing to Terry? "
That is exactly the problem. People weren't told the TRUTH, they only heard the MSM distortion. Even on FoxNews I heard several commentators misstate her condition, and allowing other to mis-state her condition: "braindead", "life support", "breathing tube", etc.
Bob Sellars of FNC, who is on as a newsreader some weekends, last weekend actually said that Terri was being fed by an IV into her arm, and they had taken the IV away from her. In his ill-informed mind, a feeding tube was something coming out from an IV bag where a drip of nutrients would go into Terri. He pictured her constantly hooked up to an IV to sustain her life, then having that removed on Greer's orders. Just shocking that his ignorance was presented as fact over the airwaves.