Posted on 03/08/2016 3:11:21 PM PST by Morgana
baby named Simon Crosier lived only 88.5 days due to an unwanted Do Not Resuscitate order, but his short life is being honored by a new bill in Missouri called “Simon’s Law.”
When Simon was born with the genetic disorder Trisomy 18, some doctors labeled him as “incompatible with life.” Unsurprisingly, many mothers of children with the condition are encouraged to have abortions, but Simon’s parents refused.
Even though babies with the condition tend to live less than a year, Simon’s mother Sheryl Crosier said she believes that their lives still should be fought for as hard and long as possible.
The doctors taking care of Simon did not do so. When doctors could not convince Simon’s parents to have an abortion, they labeled him “incompatible with life,” after he was born.
Simon’s Law would protect babies like him. The proposal states that no doctor should withhold “life-sustaining procedures, food, medication, or nutrition, not place any restrictions on life-sustaining procedures without the written permission of at least one parent or legal guardian,” according to the bill on the Missouri House of Representatives page.
Lake Expo reports Simon’s Law was filed on Dec. 21, 2015 and introduced on Feb. 16, 2016 by Missouri State Rep. Bill Kidd.
As previously was reported on LifeNews, Simon’s parents learned about his diagnosis three days after he was born.
“After Simon was diagnosed with Trisomy 18, his care and treatment changed dramatically. We began to hear doctors say ‘Not for Simon’ when aggressive treatment options were considered,” Sheryl said
Sheryl said that medical professionals told them that some parents just do not feed their children when they have this diagnosis. She said that despite their continued statements that they wanted Simon, disabilities and all, the doctors took it upon themselves to stop feeding their son.
“They weren’t feeding him. Anytime he fussed they were giving him drops of sucrose,” she stated.
“On December 3, Simon’s oxygen saturation levels began to fall. We were told this is the end, nothing could be done,” Simon’s mother wrote, previously.
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“Simon drew his last breaths, I asked again what could be done and I was told ‘nothing.’ At 10:45 a.m. December 3, 2010 the tears poured from our eyes and others around us as Simon left this world for his eternal home.
“Imagine watching your child take their last breaths, his oxygen saturation levels plummet and the medical professionals do nothing,” she said.
Later, the Crosiers discovered that there was a Do Not Resuscitate (DNR) in Simon’s medical file, which explains why the medical professionals stood around and did nothing.
“My hope is that Simon’s Law will someday protect all minor children nationwide,” his mother said.
“I can’t bring my son back,” Sheryl said to Lake Expo. “But, I want to make sure this doesn’t happen to another child.”
ACTION: The Crosiers request Missouri citizens call their local representative, senator and the state Speaker of the House District 152 District Todd Richardson and ask them to get HB1915 out of committee and onto the floor for a vote. Rep. Richardson can be reached at 573-751-4039.
This is why Obamacare needs to go.
They will do this to your children and to your parents.
The last thing you want is people who do not believe lives matter deciding when your loved ones end.
Heartbreaker for all concerned. Ask Rick Santorum and his wife about that disability. The Doctors felt they were fully in the right. I guess the Hippocratic Oath is only something their Grandfather’s used to recite upon graduation from med school. Not meant for today’s more secular world.
As long as the parents are footing the bill for the childs care, they should have the first and the last word. When you allow the fascist combination of government and health insurance corporations between patient and parent all bets are off.
Aside from the horror of this, sadly, after the tireless efforts of the evil leftists, many people no longer respect human life and do not see anything wrong with this. When we no longer value human life, we are done as a species. We can then justify the government deciding who lives and who dies. And those same people will tell you how horrible Hitler was, yet this is essentially the same thing. Government deciding who lives and who dies based on their own whim.
People refuse to see how many parallels exist between our modern society and the same sort of cultural, economic, and other factors in the Germany that the Nazi regime grew to fruition in.
There are none so blind as those who will not see.
I could not agree more.
What is scary is that a hundred years from now, when scholars read our history, they will either say, how could we not see this or they will gloat at the dystopia that the world has turned into. I could see either happening.
What is scarier, though, is the thought that they see nothing wrong, that the 'history' they read will be written by the victors (as in any conflict), and it will present the 'glorious past' without qualm.
“the government deciding who lives and who dies.”
SSDD (same stuff, different dictator)
In the opening lines of “Braveheart”, Robert the Bruce says ‘history is written by those who would hang heroes’ or something along those lines. That movie depicted human nature to a tee. Nothing has changed since then except that we get our news instantly instead of by horseman or carrier pigeon.
I have come to the conclusion that it is such a significant part of human nature that it is a miracle the species has survived at all.
When someone sees something others do not, and tells them, they will be met with denial and ridicule, and if they persist, they will be marginalized (using ridicule), and as the idea becomes more evident a few will waver in the shadows. As the rest of the evidence becomes manifest and the concept becomes undeniably obvious, then the selfsame people who ridiculed the original purveyor(s) of that knowledge will seek to take credit for it, to the exclusion of all others.
In the land of the blind, the one-eyed man isn't king, he is beaten to death for heresy.
This will only get worse. When it’s ‘the Government’s money’ (also known as TAXPAYER MONEY), they will decide who will and who won’t get care. To Leftists, a baby who is not likely to survive very long is just a waste of ‘Government money’. How did we arrive at this place of no conscience??
Mengele would be proud.
We will see the Day when the Kingdom of God arrives; the day
when the LAST shall be FIRST, & the FIRST shall be LAST.
I’m not his judge; but if Hussein persists in his folly, I
believe that he will find himself relegated to LAST in the
Kingdom of God.
Liberal doctors.
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