And these monsters want to kill her for these disabilities.
Just some clarification here : these parents are not suing the hospital to have their daughter dehydrated and killed - it seems their daughter is now living with them at home.
They are suing the hospital for giving them bad advice, lying to them, telling them they should order that the little girl be taken off life support, and then turning around and ignoring the very order they procured from the parents in the first place.
It would be like going to hospital with a serious condition, having the doctor present you with DNR paperwork and convincing you its the best choice, then completely ignoring the order.
The hospital a) told the family the girl could not survive off life support, b) would be blind, c) would be deaf, d) would be better off if life support was removed. After convincing the parents this was the correct choice, EVERY single point the hospital made turned out to be incorrect. And that, in being incorrect, they now had the power to revoke the order they convinced the parents to agree to in the first place!
No ones even thinking about what that must have been like for the parents emotionally.
Whether or not their good people, or good parents, or if the hospital acted correctly or not - there was a chain reaction of incompetence here.
Should the hospital have let the baby die? NO, of course not. But that’s not really what this is about. The baby wouldn’t even have been in that situation if the doctors hadn’t told the parents she wasn’t even capable of eating without intense pain. Anyway, yeah, it’s unfortunate this is being phrased in terms of “they didn’t let my baby die’ instead of in terms of ‘they convinced me to let my baby die, and even took steps to kill her, but they were wrong about everything.’
Too bad. They should have opted for the latter. The little girl would probably enjoy much more love and acceptace.
This is horrible.
What selfish parents! This is your child and I’m pretty sure that no one would voulenteer to be dehydrated to death. This makes me so mad what a witch!
There are parents of children with birth defects who do walk away and leave the kid for the hospital to deal with. The fact that these parents were given the option to do that, with the hospital’s blessing, and decided not to hints to me that this lawsuit isn’t what it looks like on face value.
Although it’s phrased in such a way that it looks like the parents are suing the hospital for not killing the child in a painful way, I think what is really going on is that the parents are getting overwhelmed with the bills and so forth. Simply put, they want money from the hospital, and this is their angle to get it.
If there is any reason to think that they genuinely do want the kid dead, the judge should terminate their parental rights immediately. However, since this looks more like a scheme to get money, the judge should determine that and throw the case out or rule against them.
Meanwhile, if (as I suspect) they are finding themselves overwhelmed, I’m sure that there are many sources of support they could find, a cerebral palsy organization or something. Something that’s a little more honest than trying to get rich by suing the hospital for NOT killing the child.
Father resembles child and wife murderer Scott Peterson, if not in appearance, in lack of moral compass.
You know, there are just some articles better left unread. I knew from reading the title and should have left it at that. I want that baby!! I’m so disgusted, I can’t stand it!