Nutrition and hydration via a feeding tube is, under Florida law. Perhaps that law should be changed, but that's the law the courts had to work with here.
The order directly prohibited any attempt at hydrating her naturally. By mouth. Not a feeding tube, hence my use of the word naturally. This contradicts established law, both federal and state.
Greer could indeed order all 'treatment' stopped, including feeding tube hydration. But it could not include prohibiting ice chips, et al, which it did.
Greer didn't just forbid artificial nutrtition and hydration, but natural nutrition and hydration as well. There is no legitimate rational basis for doing so. Even if oral feeding would have imposed a significant risk of aspiration and had only a small likelihood of success, that is no basis for forbidding it altogether. Note, btw, that a patient will "fail" a swallowing test if doctors feel there's any significant risk of aspiration, even if there is in fact a high likelihood of success.
They also had Article One, Section Two of the Florida constitution to 'work with'.
But they, and you, continue to act as if it doesn't exist, along with the Fifth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution that it echoes.
That 'law', and the actions of Judge Greer in ordering the execution by thirst of Terri Schiavo, are illegal. Any ten-year old with basic reading skills can deduce that simply by reading the supreme law of the State: its constitution.
The right to life is unalienable, still. Those who breach that have created a conditon of lawlessness which will reap the whirlwind in this country. In fact, it already is...