Daniel Cullen II will probably never know the impact he might have on the Texas law governing when doctors can remove life support and end a patient's life.
But the 10-month-old – whose mother is fighting to prevent a Dallas hospital from disconnecting his ventilator – could become a test case as doctors, right-to-life activists and legislators hash out a proposal to revise the futile-care law for the 2007 legislative session.
The Dallas Morning News reported late last month that the ethics board at Children's Medical Center Dallas decided, against the wishes of Daniel's mother, that it would be futile and inappropriate to continue to treat him.
Right-to-life case may affect law
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Ah, how rhapsodical! Yes, yes, let us "frame the incomprehensible space"!
Translation: You've got 10 days, then we snuff the patient.