Suppose my wife goes into a PVS and after a few years of treatment she doesn't improve. She has already told me doesn't want to be in Terri's state. So I pull the feeding tube and mourn for her. Five years later I meet another woman and we start a new life together.
Oh wait, I can't because "conservatives" have said I can't pull the plug without her family's approval.
Ummm...in your scenario she died before you met someone else. That has nothing to do with what I just said. What I said was that he had already broken his vows by shacking up with someone else and having children with that woman BEFORE TERRI DIED, therefore he forfeits any rights to make decisions based on the vows he took with Terri. If he had not broken the vows to Terri by committing adultery in the first place, we probably wouldn't even be having this discussion.
Actually it wasn't just conservatives who said it was wrong to dehydrate and starve Terri.
There was a lesbian disabled rights activist who was on MSNBC during the time before Terri died (wish I recalled her name but she was blonde and neatly groomed and femininely dressed), there was a lesbian in a wheelchair at the hospice vigil, a wiccan at the hospice vigil.
There were also some democrats against it or they wouldn't have voted for the bill that issued congressional subpoenas for Terri, MS, and others just before she died. Florida almost passed bills that would have saved her life and it was because there were a lot of liberals who voted for it.