Because further care would be futile. Hospitals are under no obligation to continue palliative care when there is no hope for recovery.
In Catholic theology, this child, on a ventilator, is receiving extraordinary means of life support, and there is no moral obligation to extend extraordinary means of care.
If the child could breathe on his own, but with a feeding tube, the hospital would be in a different situation, though it would still likely ask the mother to find a long-term care facility for him.
100% correct, my friend.
Your medical advice is almost as trustworthy as your religious guidance, Deacon. Do you even know what palliative care is?