All Terri needed to stay alive was for someone to give her food and drink. The issue of whether she was responsive, etc., does not apply. She was and is in the image of God.
Instead of this, the state considered her guilty of being a burden until proven innocent. The pro-efficiency, pro-convenience position of the state, which is at the heart being pro-death, I think, turned the basic values of our judicial system on their head. Terri had to be proven worthwhile, and until then she was considered guilty of being a burden in one way or another. With that kind of presupposition, our state has subtly become no different in its view of life and priorities than the Nazi party.


