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Supporters of an 11-month-old girl in Texas who has been hospitalized since her February birth celebrated an appeals court decision on Friday that delayed a judge’s previous ruling that granted the hospital permission to remove her from life support. The move is just the latest in a back-and-forth battle between medical staff at Cook Children’s Medical Center and the family of Tinslee Lewis, a baby who doctors say is in pain and “will never improve.” “This gives us so much hope for Tinslee,” Kimberlyn Schwarts, a spokeswoman for Texas Right to Life, which has been advocating for Tinslee and her...

The motion by Cook Children’s Hospital for a new judge in the case of 10-month-old Texas girl on life support was granted just days before her life support was scheduled to be removed on December 10. In a hearing yesterday, according to ABC News, the newly appointed judge, Sandee Bryan Marion of Texas’ Fourth Court of Appeals, “said at the hearing in Fort Worth that she would decide by at least Jan. 2 if Cook Children’s Medical Center could remove life support.” At that hearing, “Attorneys for the hospital and the girl’s mother then agreed that if Marion denies the...

The family of a baby girl on life support has been awarded a temporary restraining order against the hospital that planned to turn off her life-sustaining treatment. Nine-month-old Tinslee Lewis’ family has been fighting to keep her on life support as doctors from Cook Children’s Medical Center in Fort Worth enacted the 10-Day Rule, allowing them to end life-sustaining treatment for the baby girl despite the family’s desire to continue to treat her. Texas’ 10-Day Rule gives families just 10 days to find a new hospital to treat the patient before they remove life support. Tinslee was scheduled to have...

Judge Sandee Marion, Chief Justice of the 4th Court of Appeals, denied Tinslee Lewis a temporary injunction today, allowing Cook Children’s Medical Center to turn off her life support and let the 11-month-old baby girl die. The family says they will appeal the decision. As previously reported by Live Action News, little Tinslee was born in February 2019 with medical concerns, and in July, was placed on life support at Cook Children’s Medical Center in Fort Worth, Texas. The hospital enacted the state’s 10-Day Rule, which gives family’s just ten days to find a new facility to care for their...