And finally, perhaps you might consider that people older than you just possibly have a tiny bit more knowledge, experience and compassion than you do. This must be so, for it is quite obvious that your mother did not choose abortion.
I totally agree with that. I was just replying to her postings. I said one sentence about looking at the costs of keeping somebody on life support longer than necessary and everyone went crazy. I do not advocate killing this little girl and never claimed to. I was not for killing Terri Shivo with the starvation. You know folks are acting like what I said was something that has never been heard before. Has anyone heard of living wills? That is all I am saying. Why have someone who has a living will be on life support longer than their wishes?
Non sequitur. How many children in this country do suppose have living wills? Haliegh is a child, without an advocate to speak for her except for the step-father who attempted to murder her. His only motive is self-preservation.
I'm sorry to disappoint you, but speaking as a former paramedic (I served over 10 years in the city of Chicago), the right thing to do with children is to throw out the rule book, for they will surprise you every time.
To emphasize my point, a child not too much younger than Haleigh fell into Lake Michigan, and it took divers more than 45 minutes to find him. According to the "rules", brain death begins within 6 minutes of cardiac and respiratory arrest. Compassion caused medical personnel to take a chance, and he was revived.
His hospital stay was lengthy and his memory was virtually wiped clean, but in the end he was returned alive and whole to his family.
The only rule with treating children is...there aren't any rules.