Let's make sure I have this straight.
She doesn't want to unplug her son, who's in state custody due to allegations of neglect.
Her son "responds only to her," according to the mother, and not to any medical personnel.
She already unplugged a daughter years ago for the same problem.
Neglectful mother who tests positive for drug use (and claims not to know her joint was coke-laced - BS!), filthy and dangerous living conditions (including smoking around oxygen equipment), neighborhood allegations of drug dealing, the baby daddy "staying in a motel," two children with the same disorder . . .
Something stinks BADLY about this story.
Maybe something does, but I am concerned about the kid about to being snuffed, not the motives of the mom. I just don't like authorities deciding who lives or dies in our America.
Something stinks about hospitals only claiming futility on cases that lack any factors to solicit public sympathy.
Note: Sun Hudson's mother was quite crazy, claiming that Sun was conceived by the Sun itself.
Spiro Nikolouzos,Yenlang Vo, and Tirhas Habtegiris=all immigrants.
Like lions- they never hunt for the fastest, healthiest prey, but go after the weakest and easiest victim. They never go for the upper-middle class white soccer moms, but those who are poor, disenfranchised or otherwise lack support. The futility vultures choose their victims carefully, playing on the prejudices, moral bankruptcy and apathy of our culture of death.