Posted on 09/05/2014 9:32:40 AM PDT by ConservingFreedom
Skeptics were wrong - ObamaCare really will save money. We’re going to stop treating those who don’t meet the standard set by liberals (unless they have inside connections, which this family doesn’t have).
Looks like the mother wants to save baby daddy from murder charges at the expense (who’s paying, I wonder) of maintaining a suffering infant she seldom sees.
I agreed to one for my father. When someone is suffering and there is no reasonable prospect to restore their quality of life, keeping them alive serves no moral or functional purpose. In extreme circumstances, a DNR order is the last thing one can do and I’m pro-life. But I don’t believe in preserving life at any cost.
“The father, Kevin Peaslee, 22, is due to stand trial in October on charges of aggravated assault. “
I want to know more here ...
Was this due to resistance to govt or hospital controls?
NEVERMIND, I have learned to read.
“I agreed to one for my father. “
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Good for you. I’m 81 and my kids and doctor are well aware of my DNR wishes.
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Allowing someone to suffer out of guilt is selfishness. Are you doing it for a loved one or doing it for yourself? Sometimes God calls our nearest and dearest home and life and death belongs to Him. I always defer to His judgment and trust He will do what is just and right.
And there ya have it. The State wants to kill the child and charge the father with murder.
The child will not have a quality of life. It would to all extents and purposes be a vegetable.
And is the mother really doing this for the baby or get her abusive husband out of potential murder charges?
Sounds like another Terri Schiavo horror in the making but im ME instead of FL.
Orwellian.
Were there no other relatives to whom responsibility for medical decisions could have been given - was the government the only other option?
The next questions is who gets to decide? The mother or the State?
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Maine Gov. Paul LePage reversed state bureaucrats and vowed to defy a state Supreme Court court ruling if necessary to back a teen mom seeking to lift a "Do Not Resuscitate" order from her one-year-old baby, who was allegedly shaken into a coma but miraculously recovered.
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“This case is disturbing and is not reflective of my administration’s position that a parent who is the legal guardian of their child should have final say in medical decisions about life-sustaining treatment,” said LePage. “The existing law violates the sanctity of parental rights, and I cannot support it. Unless a parent is deemed unfit and parental rights are severed, the state should not override a parent’s right to make medical decisions for their own child.”
Given the story, I’m assuming the taxpayers are footing the bill.
Agreed, allow the person death with dignity.
Make sure that it is DNR/DNI (Do not intubate) My aunt had brain cancer, My cousin signed the DNR and one of the nurses approached me and told me that the DNR was not enough.
” My cousin signed the DNR and one of the nurses approached me and told me that the DNR was not enough. “
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Thanks for that info-———I’ll have to check out my paperwork.
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I'd have to be in mighty bad shape to think death by asphyxiation sounded good.
Good enough - RESUSCITATE!
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