I did watch it -- she is "responding" as an animal does. Yes, there is some response to stimulus, but it is not a reasoned response.
Like I said, non-scientific and lacking rigor. If she was "responding" to what was she responding? You might note his voice gets higher and louder then she kicks in.
This doesn't even pass any smell test.
But, you admit she IS responding. I hear her laughing, laughing with her father cuz she remembered teasing her mother years ago regarding her lazy eye. So, how can you justify starving her to death??? Even IF she were in a coma, I couldn't justify murdering her. I can't justify murdering anyone. As long as her body is assimilating food, she's alive, and living. When did we start murdering people because they are disabled, or "responding like an animal". She's still a person. And, her parents were willing to care for her. And, who knows, with the rehab that was promised to her that she never received after the award, who knows how far she could have come. But, she was refused the treatment she should have gotten. Instead, that money was spent on lawyers bent on murdering her. HER award money to rehab her was spent to murder her. That's pretty ironic, if you ask me.
There are protocols to determine such things as ESP that would be perfectly suitable here. A person who claims the test subject can receive and process some sort of stimulus (be it sight, sound, or whatever) is placed in a room so as to be able to observe the subject, but not stimuli to which the subject is subjected. Various prearranged stimuli are "shown" to the subject in random order; the person communicating with the subject must identify the order in which they were shown.
One of the key benefits of a protocols such as these is that all subjective judgements are done by a person wanting the test to "succeed", but no amount of desire for success will allow the person to arrange the stimuli in proper order if the communication ability simply isn't there.
Michael opposed any sort of testing that would have had any possibility of proving that Terri wasn't PVS. I wonder why?