Posted on 02/28/2011 4:07:00 PM PST by julieee
Family Appealing Hospital's Decision on Baby Joseph's Life
London, Ontario -- The family of a 13-month-old baby boy says they are appealing the decision by a Canadian hospital to not allow him to have a tracheotomy so they can bring him home as they did eight years ago with their baby daughter Zina.
http://www.lifenews.com/2011/02/28/family-appealing-hospitals-decision-on-baby-josephs-life/
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I don’t think it’s moral to support treatments, where there is no hope for treatment.
It’s not moral to let the government make these decisions. Tell the people it’s their money, they can order the operation if they are willing to pay for it.
I absolutely agree with you here.
I don't understand what you are saying here.
The parents want the operation, so they can take him home to die.
If there was a small chance the child would recover, I would support an operation.
I’d rather have the hospital time and resources and the doctor’s time and knowledge spent on somebody who might recover.
Yes, let the child be free of pain and discomfort. Yes, allow the parents to spend their few moments with the child.
No, to treatment that will do nothing more than delay death for a few hours.
I don’t think paying your own way is allowed under socialized medicine (or medicare for that matter).
This in a nutshell is why government control of health care should not happen. There will always be people like you who want to impose their will on everyone else.
It’s absurd that the government is making this decision
and not the parents.
hey stupids of America, Wake up. This is your future health care system that will cost us ALL LOTS more.
Raise hell with your congress criminal.
There is no chance you are going to live forever, so let’s just off you now. How about that? Life is terminal, so let’s just get rid of everyone, except me, of course. Crazy crazy thinking.
So you would rather the child suffocate to death in the hospital to save a few bucks? That is the problem with other people making decisions affecting your children, to them it is just money.
You’d have a point if the kid was cognizant of his environment. The only thing the kid cares about is being with his mommy.
The baby is going to suffocate to death anyway.
A ventilator only prolongs the death.
Many a baby dies on a ventilator.
Eventually, the body gives up, pumonary resistence increase, you pump in higher flow rates of 02, and the baby eventually dies.
This is not compassion, it is torture.
The baby is going to suffocate to death anyway.
A ventilator only prolongs the death.
Many a baby dies on a ventilator.
Eventually, the body gives up, pumonary resistence increase, you pump in higher flow rates of 02, and the baby eventually dies.
This is not compassion, it is torture.
It might be expensive, but as you said, that’s up the the parents. I don’t know about Canada, but in the part of the USA where I live churches and private organizations would be mobilizing to help with the expenses. I’m betting the same would happen in Canada were it allowed by the government.
It is up to the parents if they pay for all expenses, and have a physician willing to do futile care.
It is not up to parents to push for expensive , futile care on the taxpayer dime.
Is it torture for you to rejoice in the family's elation of him being home, and the miracle that he is breathing on his own now?
Please see new thread: BREAKING: Baby Joseph is home: defies critics by breathing completely on his own
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