Posted on 04/21/2005 1:45:08 PM PDT by kx9088
LONDON - Rejecting a bid by the parents, a British judge on Thursday upheld a court order allowing doctors to let a critically ill baby die if she stops breathing — a move doctors say is the only humane way to end the child's suffering.
"The State Playing God." Hmmm...As I recall, there was a certain paperhanger with a odd mustache in Europe about 60 years ago who thought the state should decide who lives and who should die.
Dammit this makes me mad as hades. How can the courts decide this ?????????? It is the parents child!!!!!!!!!!!! NEXT STOP, SOYLENT GREEN........
Jeff
It's coming to America too... The only way to stop it is to defy these crazy judges somehow... It can't be allowed to continue.
God help anyone that tries to kill any member of my family like what happened to Terri and what will happen to this small child.
Mike
Didn't the state of Texas do pretty much the same thing recently?
Yep. Sure did. Makes me all proud to be a Texas(/sacasm off)
Infanticide on the March in the UK.
They can now kill the unborn and the ill (both for their own good). Even more so, now the doctor can decide. Next, what about forced abortions. Then, killing handicapped infants at birth. Then how about killing babies within the first month of birth when defects are determined after the initial birth screening. Then, how about killing all critically injured patients young or old. How about killing all handicapped and elderly that are sick? The Nazi's also had the idea of trying to eliminate the undesirables and try to breed a race of perfect humans. Now the libs are after the Arian race.
Who knows? Got a link?
It truly is disturbing that the government can now make decisions that are your own personal business.
"Didn't the state of Texas do pretty much the same thing recently?"
Yes Texas has a law that that life-support decisions can be made by the instition provinding care (over parents wishes) if the care of patient is being provided through public funds. This includes removal of feeding and hydration tubes, the law is referred as the futile care law. It was signed into law by then Gov Bush in 1999
http://www.capitol.state.tx.us/statutes/docs/HS/content/htm/hs.002.00.000166.00.htm
When the state foots the bill, I guess it gets to decide what's best for the patient.
Let's pray to God that Anthony "International Law" Kennedy doesn't get wind of this.
Yeah it was his birthday yesterday...4/20...
I thought the same thing, but... how does the money come to the state to foot said bill?
"Baby to Die, Non-Sequitur wrote:
Didn't the state of Texas do pretty much the same thing recently?"
Yeah, Bush himself signed that law in 1999, I think.
Could you provide fewer details?
Based on the conditions, where she has no realistic chance of recovering, and given how badly she is in pain, I think a do-not-ruscusitate order is the only humane thing the doctors can do.
I feel for the parents; I really do. But there comes a point where society has to say, enough is enough. We have no obligation to spend our precious health care dollars on Sisyphian attempts to prolong the inevitable.
Thank you.
I don't exactly see this as the government killing someone.
They're not withholding food or hydration, but they won't be putting the child on a ventilator.
We expressed the same wishes when my in-laws were ill. I do not think we "killed" them.
We do have the technology to keep people alive with machines, does that mean we need to do it in every case? I don't think so.
Disgusting. Coming to America?
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