[Spiff]

If she could have been fed orally, what you're saying is true. But she was being fed artificially, by the hospital staff, under a doctor's orders, via a surgically implanted feeding tube, which anyone would call a medical treatment -- a treatment she was allowed, constitutionally, to refuse.

What if the staff was feeding her with a spoon or a straw? Would it have been OK to order them to stop such "artificial" feeding?

But read the court order. It is the same as if Judge Greer had ordered that Michael Schiavo shall cause the removal of all oxygen from the ward, Terri Schiavo. And that he, then, tied a plastic bag around her head to comply with the court order.

[robertpaulsen]

"It is the same as if"

No it's not the same as if.

The original court order was "to proceed with the discontinuence of said artificial life support", the artificial life support being previously defined.

(spoon-feeding and straws were not included)