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Baby Daniel's Fight Update...

Here is recent info on poor baby Daniel:

With Daniel's mother and his doctors at an impasse, the hospital — backed by the state's futile-care law — took steps that would lead to removal of Daniel's life support without her consent.

But last week, lawyers for Belcher and the hospital agreed to extend a temporary restraining order that bars further action until the case is heard by a judge June 16.

"She's grieving and in trauma and all of a sudden the people she thinks are helping her child are saying they'll override her and terminate treatment," said Belcher's lawyer, Brian Potts, who is working to change a law that in certain circumstances gives healthcare facilities the right to end life support. "Most parents don't know until they're in this situation that the final decision may not be theirs to make."

A Mom, a Texas Law and a Baby's Fate

8mm

96 posted on 06/08/2006 5:02:43 AM PDT by 8mmMauser (Jezu ufam Tobie...Jesus I trust in Thee)
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>> If, after weighing the facts, the committee decides further treatment is futile, doctors can end life support after a 10-day waiting period.

Sixth trimester abortion.

113 posted on 06/08/2006 6:23:59 PM PDT by T'wit (Due process: Two lawyers obfuscating the truth to the satisfaction of a bureaucrat in black robes.)
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