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Monday, March 21, 2005
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Baby born with fatal defect dies after removal from life support
By LEIGH HOPPERCopyright 2005 Houston Chronicle
The baby wore a cute blue outfit with a teddy bear covering his bottom. The 17-pound, 6-month-old boy wiggled with eyes open and smacked his lips, according to his mother
Then at 2 p.m. today, a medical staffer at Texas Children's Hospital gently removed the breathing tube that had kept Sun Hudson alive since his Sept. 25 birth. Cradled by his mother, he took a few breaths, and died.
Sun's death marks the first time a hospital has been allowed by a U.S. judge to discontinue an infant's life-sustaining care against a parent's wishes, according to bioethical experts. A similar case involving a 68-year-old man in a chronic vegetative state at another Houston hospital is before a court now.
Texas Futile Care law allows hospitals can discontinue life sustaining care, even if patient family members disagree
Then Gov. G.W.Bush signed into law, check it out. See what it says about artificial nutrition and hydration
http://www.capitol.state.tx.us/statutes/docs/HS/content/htm/hs.002.00.000166.00.htm
The approval and signing of the measure allows a federal court to intervene in the case of Terri Schiavo, this was grandstanding at its worse, shame on them all. Two faced SOB’s
Everything the conservatives in general and the Bush administration inparticulal do is self serving, They don’t care for this woman or any one else.
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By LEIGH HOPPERCopyright 2005 Houston Chronicle
The baby wore a cute blue outfit with a teddy bear covering his bottom. The 17-pound, 6-month-old boy wiggled with eyes open and smacked his lips, according to his mother
Then at 2 p.m. today, a medical staffer at Texas Children's Hospital gently removed the breathing tube that had kept Sun Hudson alive since his Sept. 25 birth. Cradled by his mother, he took a few breaths, and died.
Sun's death marks the first time a hospital has been allowed by a U.S. judge to discontinue an infant's life-sustaining care against a parent's wishes, according to bioethical experts. A similar case involving a 68-year-old man in a chronic vegetative state at another Houston hospital is before a court now.
Texas Futile Care law allows hospitals can discontinue life sustaining care, even if patient family members disagree
Then Gov. G.W.Bush signed into law, check it out. See what it says about artificial nutrition and hydration
http://www.capitol.state.tx.us/statutes/docs/HS/content/htm/hs.002.00.000166.00.htm
The approval and signing of the measure allows a federal court to intervene in the case of Terri Schiavo, this was grandstanding at its worse, shame on them all. Two faced SOB’s
Everything the conservatives in general and the Bush administration inparticulal do is self serving, They don’t care for this woman or any one else.
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