Groups such as Not Dead Yet, ADAPT, the Feminist Response in Disability Activism, and individual advocates are working to keep doctors from pulling the plug on Baby Emilio, a toddler with disabilities in Texas who has been declared as "futile" under the Futile Care Law. Under the Futile Care Law, physicians must give only 10 days notice before they withdraw treatment if further care is deemed medically futile, even over the wishes of the patient and family. The ethics committee at the hospital, which has been given this Ultimate Authority, has deigned to allow the child's family until April 10 to find a hospital or doctor to care for him before they pull the plug.
This would be done AGAINST THE WISHES OF THE CHILD'S OWN FAMILY, who want him to be kept alive.
Meanwhile there is a bill pending in the Texas legislature which would prevent hospitals from doing this until the family has had time to find another hospital to care for the child.
I will post the petition again on my blog. We only have 300 people and organizations who have signed this.
Anyone else believe in the value of the life of a toddler with disabilities and/or the right of his parents to make the decision?
Via Inclusion News Daily
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