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Euthanasia: August 22, 2005
Baby Improves but Hospital Keeps Do Not Resuscitate Order

Charlotte Wyatt was born prematurely at St. Mary's hospital on the 21st of October 2003. She weighed 458 grams (about a pound) and was barely five inches long. Three times in her short life she had to be re-ventilated. Despite her doctor's predictions and a court ruling last Fall imposing a Do Not Resuscitate (DNR) order on her, Charlotte lived and is thriving.

Despite her progress, earlier this year a Judge decided against removing the DNR from Charlotte and her parents appealed.

Doctors from the hospital now state that Charlotte's improvement is "remarkable" and, contrary to their prior assertions, she may be able to go home.

Unfortunately, the hospital is still fighting against the request by her parents, Debbie and Darren Wyatt, to remove the DNR.

LifeSiteNews.com has the story and includes the following elucidation:

Hospital ethics boards are increasingly deciding against intensive care in cases of serious illness in favor of a set of criteria based around an arbitrarily judged “quality of life.” If a person’s quality of life is judged by a doctor to be below standard, that patient will often be in danger of passive or even active euthanasia by refusal of treatment or starvation and dehydration. Courts are more often siding with hospital boards who often have pragmatic reasons for not wanting to prolong the lives of patients deemed “hopeless” cases.


Posted by plb at August 22, 2005 5:08 PM

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Charlotte Wyatt Improves, Battle Continues from BlogsforTerri
PORTSMOUTH, August 22, 2005 (LifeSiteNews.com) - Charlotte Wyatt, the child with serious lung damage whom doctors predicted would not live past her first weeks of life, is improving dramatically. However, Portsmouth Hospital Trustees went to court to m......[read more]

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