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Futile Care Archives


May 20, 2007

Emilio Gonzales has Died

News reports bring us the sad news that baby Emilio Gonzales passed away Saturday night. May his mother find comfort in this time of grief, satisfied with their bold stand for Emilio's life. Our thoughts and prayers are with his...

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April 10, 2007

Judge grants temporary restraining order for Emilio Gonzales

Our friends at the Alliance Defense Fund give the following update: A probate judge Tuesday issued a temporary restraining order so that a toddler named Emilio at Children's Hospital of Austin can continue to receive medical treatment while his lawsuit...

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Emilio Gonzales Remains on Life Support

JacquefromTexas sent us the following news: A Temporary Restraining Order has been issued - to keep 18-month old Emilio Gonzales on life support 4/10/2007 590 KLBJ-AM A Travis Judge has ruled on the side of mother trying to keep her...

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April 9, 2007

Texas Mom Fights Hospital Death Sentence

Once again a fragile and infinitely precious innocent life hangs in the balance, as a mother is pitted against the medical establishment in a battle for the life of her little boy. Catarina Gonzales, 23 and single, is fighting to...

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SAVE THE CHILDREN FROM CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL

Save the Children From Children's Hospital Cannily burying their intentions amidst the pain of a family's confusion, doctors in Texas now have a opportunist system for killing people while simultaneously diverting blame. It is a wicked partnership of bureaucracy and...

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March 22, 2007

Watching Texas With Increased Alarm

By Dave Andrusko, National Right to Life First, the very good news. A Texas hospital has agreed not to withdraw life support from 16-month-old Emilio Gonzales until April 10. This gives his family a chance to find another hospital which,...

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March 21, 2007

Emilio Gonzales Update and a Message to our Readers

The good news related to Emilio Gonzales is that his hospital has agreed to extend his treatment to April 10 and is assisting the family with a transfer. Today we received this important message from Jerri Ward: I am the...

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Reprieve for Baby Emilio

Wesley Smith writes:Ah, the power of good lawyers and public scrutiny. After going to court, attorney Jerri Ward, attorney for Baby Emilio's mother, just informed me that the Children's Hospital of Austin has agreed not to remove life support until...

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March 20, 2007

Little Emilio's Attorneys Seek Death Stay

An update from North Country Gazette: Lawyers for the mother of "Little Emilio" Gonzales, a 16-month-old baby boy who physicians say is dying of Leigh's Disease, filed a temporary restraining order request Tuesday against the Seton Family of Hospitals in...

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Texas mom fights to save her young child's life

Hospital "ethics" committee votes that toddler does not deserve treatment, boy may die by Friday AUSTIN, Texas -- A Texas mother is urgently battling to save her child's life after officials at the Children's Hospital of Austin deemed the toddler's...

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March 18, 2007

Toddler Forced Off Life Support - Help Needed

Update: the hospital and doctors are working with the family and should be commended. We've edited some of the language from the email below in response to some of the comments that have been received. Melanie Childlers, one of Andrea...

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January 19, 2007

A message to our readers from Lanore Dixon

Last year you fought for the life of Andrea Clark, the woman whose life the Texas Health Care system decided was not worth living (more here and here). Now her family is fighting to get a law passed that will...

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November 16, 2006

Critical Care of Babies Born and Unborn

The Nuffield Bioethics Council has published its report, "Critical care decisions in fetal and neonatal medicine: ethical issues." You can read the entire report in pdf form , my summary at LifeEthics.org, which includes links to other people's summaries, including...

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October 4, 2006

Experimenting on the Incapacitated

A recent article appearing in the Journal of Medical Ethics addresses the suggestion that medical experiments should be conducted on those who are considered in a permanent vegetative state. A chilling, if not frightening, account is reported by BioEdge:What should...

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September 18, 2006

Escaping the Texas Futile Care Law

We've covered several distressing cases involving the infamous Texas Futile Care Law that grants hospitals "the immoral power over life and death and forces beleaguered families into an 11th-hour scramble to save their loved ones." Howard Witt, a Chicago Tribune...

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September 7, 2006

Vegetative Yet Conscious?

A 23-year-old car-crash victim has preserved conscious awareness despite her vegetative state:A car crash severely injured the woman’s brain, leaving her in a vegetative state. But British scientists found startling signs of awareness when they peered deeper into her brain:...

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September 1, 2006

Battle the Medical Elite

To view this item online, visit http://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=51775 Friday, September 1, 2006 Battle the 'anointed elite' Posted: September 1, 2006 1:00 a.m. Eastern Editor's note: This Letter of the Week is in response to a letter to the editor that appeared...

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July 12, 2006

One Terry Reminding Us of Another Terri

From our friends at the Terri Schindler Schiavo Foundation Center for Health Care Ethics: ST. PETERSBURG, Florida, July 12 /Christian Newswire/ -- The publicity surrounding Terry Wallis has brought attention once again to the condition of Terri Schiavo. Terry Wallis...

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July 11, 2006

Another Texas Futile Care Controversy

Twenty-nine 29-year-old Kalilah Roberson-Reese became incapacitated following an emergency cesarean section which claimed the life of her child and left her brain damaged. She was abandoned by her husband and with Medicaid running out doctors invoked the infamous Texas Futile...

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June 4, 2006

The Economics of Life

The pro-life movement is celebrating victories that after over 30 years of Roe v Wade, the scourge of abortion, at least public support for it, has waned and is now the minority position. South Dakota passed an outright abortion ban...

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May 30, 2006

Another Potential Texas Futile Care Law Victim

A Texas mother and her baby are the latest victims in an ongoing battle against a Texas law that allows medical facilities to tell the family of a patient that they have 10 days to find another medical center willing...

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May 24, 2006

Starving the Uninsured in Texas

Unfortunately, Texas hospitals continue to exploit futile care laws to forcibly remove care from their patients. Yesterday, we received the following alarming email from Texas Right to Life's Elizabeth Graham:We have two new cases this week: one is a pediatric...

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May 23, 2006

A Disaster Waiting to Happen

New Hampshire's legislature is considering a bill to address end-of-life care that includes language that may give hospital ethics committees the legal right to withdraw care from a patient. Pamela Hennessy comments:Hospital ethics committees are not groups of doctors who...

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