Oh my God.
Can't really think of anything else to say.
More background would be helpful
These liberal judges can't stand to have a murdering thug executed for his/her crimes, but they have absolutely no problem pulling the plug on an innocent life. How perverse and sickening can they be?
A very hard matter to decide. I have seen both sides. The very worst - babies with no chance of living that are kept alive (at the hospital expense) so that the parent can continue to collect the baby's social security check (yes, they get one).
Oh, God. My heart breaks for the family. What have we come to in this country when medical doctors don't work to sustain life? Does not the hypocratic (sp) oath say that doctors are to "do no harm"?
I'm ready to march on William McCulloch's court.
What's so ironic is we had to battle doctors who wanted to place my 92 year old FIL on a vent, even though his Living Will specifically stated that he did not want to have artificial means of respiration.
The man had MRSA and was incoherent from a number of strokes, and yet they kept insisting we put him on a vent.
We resisted, but I can't even explain the kind of pressure they were exerting: it was daily and for weeks.
His mother didn't help her cause by claiming that the child didn't have an earthly father, that he was conceived by the Sun, thus his name. She had been evaluated by the psych unit of the hospital, but they didn't try to commit her. I guess the hospital didn't want to do that because they didn't want to seem heartless in not allowing her to be with her son.
There is nothing that requires hospitals to continue treatment if that treatment isn't going to make someone better. If there is no way that someone is going to survive, it is not required to keep them alive through artificial means.
The resources required to keep this baby alive could have kept hundreds alive somewhere else. Choices are always tough when it comes to these issues. We live in a world of limited resources and rationing is a fact of life.
My good G-D:{{{{{{{{{Ping thank you
May he rest in peace with the angels.
Muleteam1
And so it begins, judges are now officially gods having the power of life and death, over the innocent. Looks like Hitler won the morality war after all.
Evil.
Whose privacy?
I need more details on the baby's actual medical condition. Was he microcephalic? Was he anacephalic? I think it was just as bad or worse to remove that parasitical head on that 'twin' which actually had brain activity.
Sometimes I wonder if any of these Posters realise how many machines it would take to keep everyone alive if we never pulled the plug. Decisions to remove life supports are made evry day many times a day. If we just kept plugging people in and keeping them alive when without a machine they would die we would need hundreds of veggie hospitals.
Sure its an ugly fact, but decisions have to be made .
I state here and now If I am brain dead ,in irreversible coma, have terminal cancer, or just a paraplegic, please pull my plug, Do not destroy my family with bills they cant pay and dont make them come to the hospital daily to watch me vegetate with no hope of ever seeing me as I was.
I saw this baby's mother on Fox once. She is a total raving lunatic. She was going on and on about the baby being some kind of god. You can't believe a word she says.
Bias here?
I have never heard a reporter say:
"The hitman gently pulled the trigger..."
"The attacker gently forwarded the knife..."
"The rapist gently pushed in his d#*k..."