I’m surprised that you haven’t heard of Father Tad at the National Catholic Bioethics Center. You ought to look him up.
In addition to discussions at the blogs linked to before, the second Ethics Committee report explained why a trach wasn’t appropriate. It was published on line by the North Country Gazette after his mother’s lawyer leaked it to the press. It’s available in a Word Document here: http://www.northcountrygazette.org/documents/PediEthicsCommitteeReport.doc
Medicine cannot always “prolong and improve life.” Father Tad and the 23 active Bishops in Texas agreed that doing what the mother asked, placing a tracheostomy, would have been medically innappropriate.
No thanks. An unreferenced testimonial of an unknown person is completely extraneous to this debate.
In addition to discussions at the blogs linked to before, the second Ethics Committee report explained why a trach wasn’t appropriate.
The question has nothing to do with whether a pro-death, hack doctor thinks some life sustaining medical treatment is "appropriate", but whether a patient's desire to live should be overridden by that pro-death, hack doctor.
It was published on line by the North Country Gazette after his mother’s lawyer leaked it to the press.
Not interested. This is just another lame attempt on your part to fallaciously divert this ethical debate with an anecdotal red herring. The fact the you have ignored almost all of the substantive points posted to you through this debate demonstrates the weakness of your argument as well the weakness of a representative intellect on your side of the debate.
Medicine cannot always “prolong and improve life.”
That is the objective of medicine. The purpose of this murderous statute, however, is to allow incompetent doctors to withdraw a patient's life sustaining medical treatment that the patient believes would prolong and improve their life against that patient's expressed wishes.
Father Tad and the 23 active Bishops in Texas agreed that doing what the mother asked, placing a tracheostomy, would have been medically innappropriate.
So we have gone from the sacred opinion of doctors to the medical opinions of clergy? The absurd reasoning used by you pro-death types would be hilarious if it wasn't so evil.