It has not been proven that she can't drink a flow similar to that of her saliva. What's the worst that happens... she dies?
Actually I did find the legalese about it, and it is demonically brilliant. Greer deemed such feeding an "unwarranted experimental procedure."
I hope you and your ilk are real proud of yourselves. Enjoy it now, because it will be forever gone when you come before the Great White Throne.
A) The doctors were bored.
B) They needed the money.
C) Practice, practice, practice.
D) No reason whatsoever.
E) Because Terri has dysphagia -- food and liquids go into the lungs, leading to aspiration pneumonia.