So, they think murdering him is somehow dignified? Disgusting.
I have personally witnessed this in a hospice situation. It is murder. Plain and simple.
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How is this not evil?
The group said the hospital is located in northwest Houston, which is not yet further identified.
Anonymous physicians, social workers et al. IMHO, the Texas Right to Life org should not be making such releases with information that cannot be vetted, nor should it be posted here.
I'm not saying that the information is false. However, I am saying that it's vague in too many respects to be taken seriously in its current form.
If they want to kill him so badly, then why do it not in a humane way? Not even the condemned are executed like that.
Talking about cruel and unusual punishment.
the family should just take the patient out and bring him elsewhere, or take him home...get a court order if necessary....
but I suspect the family has been offered options yet refused....
This Texas right to life needs to do better than this.
Name names!
Which hospital and what doctors?!?!
I want names, emails, and phone numbers posted here to Free Republic for all to see.
We’ll have to start our own underground hospitals - like the underground railroad.
The family involved here should do the same kind of thing.
I think an appropriate response would be essentially a “force option”.
Once a destination has been determined, get some sympathetic medical personnel, and half a dozen strong-arm men along with a gurney and ambulance crew. Then, in the early hours of the morning go in and take him.
Admittedly, the strong arms will likely be arrested, and that should be part of the plan that if the hospital staff or security interfere, that it is the strong arms who will be the focus of force as the patient is spirited away.
It will take months or years to get it all sorted out in court, and by then the patient will likely have died a natural death.
But it will cause reverberations throughout the medical community and likely the government, to the effect that people will fight to keep their loved ones from being medically murdered.
So a battery of sympathetic lawyers should also be standing by, since the real battle will be in court.
“the hospital has refused to allow the patient and his family to take him to a nearby hospice for care”
Me, in that situation:
“Allow” presumes I recognize your authority in this matter!”
“We are leaving, NOW!”
are they starving him, or just withdrawing treatment that won’t help (futile care theory)?
End stage leukemia along with pneumonia? Sounds like IV fluid would only prolong his terminal agony, not prolong his life. And Catholic law does not require extraordinary care...IV fluid here means either a deep IV line (which will only increase the chance of infection and heart failure) or spending hours trying to find a vein that won’t collapse.
I’d hold off before I dare to judge this matter.
are they starving him, or just withdrawing treatment that won’t help (futile care theory)?
End stage leukemia along with pneumonia? Sounds like IV fluid would only prolong his terminal agony, not prolong his life. And Catholic law does not require extraordinary care...IV fluid here means either a deep IV line (which will only increase the chance of infection and heart failure) or spending hours trying to find a vein that won’t collapse.
I’d hold off before I dare to judge this matter.
By what legal right or authority can a hospital keep a patient incarcerated to prevent them being taken to hospice care?
I cannot imagine that hospital successfully resisting my (very well-armed) family if we knew one of ours needed hospice care.
Thanks for the ping, and again for all your work on FR.
The tactics of the pro-death side now include an
identity shield. All we know is the first name of
the victim and geographical location.
Social worker?
Something’s not right with this story.