Little-Acorn
02-23-2011, 12:27 PM
Hey, the kid is going to die anyway, so may as well just pull the plug on him now. It'll cost less money than what his family wants.
I'm glad no one in this country is calling for Universal Health Care programs that might eventually give government the power to make decisions like this in America.
Are they?
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http://www.foxnews.com/world/2011/02/22/canadian-family-fights-babys-beathing-tube-place/
Canadian Family Fights to Keep Boy's Breathing Tube in Place
Published February 22, 2011
The Canadian family of a 13-month-old boy clinging to life support has defied a court order to remove the boy’s breathing tube and now is looking to an American hospital for what experts say would be a miracle recovery.
The boy, Joseph Maraachli, has been in a vegetative state at a hospital in London, Ontario, since last fall. He’s been treated for a neurodegenerative disease that doctors ruled leaves no hope for the boy.
A Superior Court judge, in turn, ordered that Maraachli’s breathing tube be removed on Monday. But his family refused, insisting that the boy be released to his family’s care, according to CBC News.
“I belive in my son,” Moe Maraachli, the boy's father, told Fox News on Monday. “I will never let my son die in the doctors’ way.”
The family says removing the ventilator would promise an agonizing death for the boy.
I'm glad no one in this country is calling for Universal Health Care programs that might eventually give government the power to make decisions like this in America.
Are they?
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http://www.foxnews.com/world/2011/02/22/canadian-family-fights-babys-beathing-tube-place/
Canadian Family Fights to Keep Boy's Breathing Tube in Place
Published February 22, 2011
The Canadian family of a 13-month-old boy clinging to life support has defied a court order to remove the boy’s breathing tube and now is looking to an American hospital for what experts say would be a miracle recovery.
The boy, Joseph Maraachli, has been in a vegetative state at a hospital in London, Ontario, since last fall. He’s been treated for a neurodegenerative disease that doctors ruled leaves no hope for the boy.
A Superior Court judge, in turn, ordered that Maraachli’s breathing tube be removed on Monday. But his family refused, insisting that the boy be released to his family’s care, according to CBC News.
“I belive in my son,” Moe Maraachli, the boy's father, told Fox News on Monday. “I will never let my son die in the doctors’ way.”
The family says removing the ventilator would promise an agonizing death for the boy.