"This decision absolutely is our decision to make, and the question should be whether individuals can make that decisions for themselves and their loved ones or whether others are going to try to usurp that decision." It is a difficult decision compounded in Terri's case by a judicial system that functioned broken. In Terri's case, it is the ones choosing for her and ignoring a mountain of evidence that spoke to the unfitness of the one given the right to make the choice, it is that broken functioning that most want desperately to fix, without playing God just trying to get the system which is clearly broken to err on the side of life instead of execution.
I agree. The whole problem in Terri's case was that all the wrong people were making the decisions. If conservatives focus on trying to keep decisions in the right hands, we could have some success. If we appear to be trying to put everyone's decisions in our hands, we will accomplish nothing.