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Mother fights hospital to keep baby on life support (Terri's Legacy)
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| June 1, 2006
| Associated Press
Posted on 06/01/2006 7:20:27 AM PDT by 8mmMauser
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This follows the cases of Andrea Clark and Mrs. Vo falling under the Texas Futile Care law.
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posted on
06/01/2006 7:20:31 AM PDT
by
8mmMauser
To: Ohioan from Florida; Goodgirlinred; Miss Behave; cyn; Abby4116; Alissa; AlwaysFree; amdgmary; ...
Baby Daniel's Fight ping
Terri June Dailies
8mm
(this includes Ohioan from Florida's ping list, update to May 17.)
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posted on
06/01/2006 7:22:04 AM PDT
by
8mmMauser
(Jezu ufam Tobie...Jesus I trust in Thee)
To: 8mmMauser
Let it be an illegal's child and you can bet the plug would never be pulled.
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posted on
06/01/2006 7:25:56 AM PDT
by
mtbopfuyn
(I think the border is kind of an artificial barrier - San Antonio councilwoman Patti Radle)
To: All
From the Dallas Morning News...
"Something deep down inside is telling me not to unplug my 10-month-old," said Dixie Belcher, Daniel's mother. "I know it's going to take him quite a while to pull out of this, but I know he's my little fighter, and he's got to pull through. He's got to pull through."
Part of the reason Ms. Belcher cannot bring herself to unplug her son is that she has been here before.
Fourteen years ago in a hospital room at Children's Medical Center, she says, she struggled with another doctor's recommendation to remove life support from her 5-month-daughter, Jamie, who also suffered breathing problems.
Mom fighting ruling to end infant's life support Exclusive: 'He's got to pull through'
8mm
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posted on
06/01/2006 7:27:33 AM PDT
by
8mmMauser
(Jezu ufam Tobie...Jesus I trust in Thee)
To: 8mmMauser
The article is light on details, but this doesn't look like a Schiavo type case to me.
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posted on
06/01/2006 7:27:52 AM PDT
by
Protagoras
("A real decision is measured by the fact that you have taken a new action"... Tony Robbins)
To: 8mmMauser
I don't understand. If the mother is willing to pay for continued life support, though futile, why won't the hospital agree?
To: Protagoras
It is more like a futile care case as in the case of Andrea Clark and Mrs. Vo. But like with Terri, it is others making the decision to euthanize someone regardless of the wishes of close relatives.
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posted on
06/01/2006 7:30:02 AM PDT
by
8mmMauser
(Jezu ufam Tobie...Jesus I trust in Thee)
To: robertpaulsen
Don't know that yet. I am sure these details will be forthcoming. Both Andrea Clark and Mrs. Vo faced similar barriers.
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posted on
06/01/2006 7:31:43 AM PDT
by
8mmMauser
(Jezu ufam Tobie...Jesus I trust in Thee)
To: robertpaulsen
If the mother is willing to pay for continued life support, though futile, why won't the hospital agree?Because further care would be futile. Hospitals are under no obligation to continue palliative care when there is no hope for recovery.
In Catholic theology, this child, on a ventilator, is receiving extraordinary means of life support, and there is no moral obligation to extend extraordinary means of care.
If the child could breathe on his own, but with a feeding tube, the hospital would be in a different situation, though it would still likely ask the mother to find a long-term care facility for him.
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posted on
06/01/2006 7:35:57 AM PDT
by
sinkspur
( Don Cheech. Vito Corleone would like to meet you......Vito Corleone.....)
To: 8mmMauser
It is more like a futile care case as in the case of Andrea Clark and Mrs. Vo. But like with Terri, it is others making the decision to euthanize someone regardless of the wishes of close relatives. It is totally unlike any of those cases. If the ventilator was removed, the child would die. Even the Catholic Church would not say there is a moral obligation to extend this child's life.
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posted on
06/01/2006 7:37:50 AM PDT
by
sinkspur
( Don Cheech. Vito Corleone would like to meet you......Vito Corleone.....)
To: Protagoras
The article is light on details, but this doesn't look like a Schiavo type case to me. It's not. There is a ventilator involved here, not just a feeding tube.
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posted on
06/01/2006 7:38:42 AM PDT
by
sinkspur
( Don Cheech. Vito Corleone would like to meet you......Vito Corleone.....)
To: 8mmMauser
This law predated Terry, it was signed into law by Gov. George W. Bush as I recall.
To: 8mmMauser
But like with Terri, it is others making the decision to euthanize someone regardless of the wishes of close relatives. There are two sides to this question. The hospital has determined the person to already be deceased. (I assume)
The mother, naturally and understandably, does not.
Therefore, the term "euthanize" is already preloaded.
The other question is the one about who is to pay for the continued "life" support. Some think the hospital has the responsibility to continue to pay, for as long as the relatives desire. I am not one of them.
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posted on
06/01/2006 7:40:42 AM PDT
by
Protagoras
("A real decision is measured by the fact that you have taken a new action"... Tony Robbins)
To: sinkspur
I agree, that is the main difference.
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posted on
06/01/2006 7:41:44 AM PDT
by
Protagoras
("A real decision is measured by the fact that you have taken a new action"... Tony Robbins)
To: robertpaulsen
I don't see any indication in the article that anyone is actually paying for this child's care, which presumably means it is the taxpayers who are indirectly picking up the tab.
I hate to see cases like this, but this situation has one enormous difference from the Schiavo case in that Schiavo was capable of breathing on her own, where this child apparently is not.
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posted on
06/01/2006 7:43:06 AM PDT
by
Alberta's Child
(Can money pay for all the days I lived awake but half asleep?)
To: Voteamerica
Yes, that is right. I think it was meant to stop futile medications like maybe antibiotics are doing no more good, but the ethicists have redefined it to rule on "futile life". We just went through all this with Andrea Clark and Mrs. Vo who is still alive.
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posted on
06/01/2006 7:45:56 AM PDT
by
8mmMauser
(Jezu ufam Tobie...Jesus I trust in Thee)
To: sinkspur
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posted on
06/01/2006 7:46:55 AM PDT
by
joe fonebone
(Time to bring back tar and feathering.)
To: Alberta's Child
It is not enormous. Pulling feeding and water is similar. It kills by dehydration, not a fun way to go, and certainly not permitted for pets.
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posted on
06/01/2006 7:47:33 AM PDT
by
8mmMauser
(Jezu ufam Tobie...Jesus I trust in Thee)
To: sinkspur
So that makes it ok for the staff to snuff the kid, right. You remember I am a Catholic, too, a traditional at that. Aren't you supposed to be a deacon or somthing?
The Pope who died just after Terri thought snuffing people like that was bad. Don't you?
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posted on
06/01/2006 7:49:56 AM PDT
by
8mmMauser
(Jezu ufam Tobie...Jesus I trust in Thee)
To: 8mmMauser
We just went through all this with Andrea Clark and Mrs. Vo who is still alive. Andrea Clark died within days of the Houston hospital reconsidering its decision to evict her, thus proving that the original "futile care" decision was the correct one.
Will you acknowledge that this case is distinctly different from the two you mention above? A ventilator is REQUIRED for this child to breathe.
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posted on
06/01/2006 7:50:25 AM PDT
by
sinkspur
( Don Cheech. Vito Corleone would like to meet you......Vito Corleone.....)
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