Hospital rules to unplug baby girl (guess where?)

[kentuck]

Does this remind you of another case?? Where are the right-wingers with this baby dying? Maybe she will live? Do they have a right to take her life against the parents wishes??


http://www.chron.com/cs/CDA/ssistory.mpl/metropolitan/3160939

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In Houston's latest end-of-life controversy, Memorial Hermann Hospital has decided to remove from life support a 6-month-old girl whose leukemia has spread to her brain.

The parents of Knya Dismuke-Howard, who also has multiple-organ failure and a life-threatening antibiotic-resistant infection, vowed to fight the decision. Under Texas law, they have eight days remaining to find another facility to take her.

"I think she can beat the odds," said Tamiko Dismuke, the baby's mother. "She's a fighter. The hospital's given up on her, but everyone who's witnessed her through this has been amazed at how she keeps coming back."

Dismuke said the family hasn't hired a lawyer or decided to take legal action but may still do so. She said their first priority is finding a hospital to take her.

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