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jn2375 Donating Member (858 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Mar-21-05 01:53 PM
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Wanda Hudson needs to be interviewed about her son being unplugged
Edited on Mon Mar-21-05 01:54 PM by jn2375
and left to die over her objections, thanks to Bush's legislation when he was govenor.
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vi5 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Mar-21-05 01:56 PM
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1. Anyone have a good article on that?
I haven't been able to find one. I knew about the story but it hasn't been as widely reported.
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KansDem Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Mar-21-05 01:56 PM
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2. link...
http://www.chron.com/cs/CDA/ssistory.mpl/front/3087387

Baby dies after hospital removes breathing tube
Case is the first in which a judge allowed a hospital to discontinue care
By LEIGH HOPPER
Copyright 2005 Houston Chronicle

The baby wore a cute blue outfit with a teddy bear covering his bottom. The 17-pound, nearly 6-month-old boy wiggled with eyes open, his mother said, and smacked his lips.

Then at 2 p.m. Tuesday, a medical staffer at Texas Children's Hospital gently removed the breathing tube that had kept Sun Hudson alive since his birth Sept. 25. Cradled by his mother, he took a few breaths, and died.
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montanacowboy Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Mar-21-05 01:57 PM
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3. Absolutely!
She needs to go on the MSM and tell everyone what a fucking hypocrite our POS President is...

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bagnana Donating Member (858 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Mar-21-05 01:57 PM
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4. that's pretty cold
If she wants to speak out she should, but I don't think we should intrude upon her privacy and sadness to make a political point just because the Republicans feel the right to do so.
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GiovanniC Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Mar-21-05 01:58 PM
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5. I Don't Know If That Would Be Productive
The woman is not psychologically sound.

I'm afraid that she would start going on about how she communicates telepathically with the sun, and how the sun was the father of her son, Sun, and she would lose credibility.

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beam me up scottie Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Mar-21-05 02:06 PM
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6. Yes, she was in the wacko ward prior to giving birth.
Not to mention her son had a fatal form of dwarfism that caused him to be deformed. Keeping him alive to placate the mother was just prolonging his suffering.
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atreides1 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Mar-21-05 02:09 PM
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9. It's About the Hypocrisy
Not whether she was in a padded cell before her son was born. It's the same thing, the state of Texas decided to pull the plug against her wishes, and he was only on a respirator for six months.
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beam me up scottie Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Mar-21-05 02:16 PM
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10. He was never going to come off the respirator, he should have
been allowed to die at birth. The only reason he wasn't was because of lack of prenatal care, nobody knew what was wrong with him until after he was on the machines.
The mother did not even know that he was suffering, she thought he was just hunky-dory.
What it's about is doing the right thing and not continuing treatment for a child that was never going to live.
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atreides1 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Mar-21-05 04:05 PM
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11. "...she thought he was hunky-dory...."
Sort of like Mrs. Schiavo's parents are convinced that she will recover from her lack of a cerbral cortex. But yet not one single expert has pointed out that the Schindlers are living in a fantasy world that was created by them and those around them.

If she'd of had prenatal care, they would have discovered this genetic disorder.

I'm not saying what they did wasn't the right thing for the child, it was. There is yet another patient in a Texas hospital who if it hasn't already been done will be taken off a respirator, this time it's an adult. His family was notified on March 1 that the hospital had made a decision to remove him on March 10. The attorney for the family was trying to get an extension to see if the family could find another facility to take him.
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beam me up scottie Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Mar-21-05 04:23 PM
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12. The woman is mentally ill.
She refused prenatal care and even if she had been told he was deformed I doubt she would have aborted. The state should be investigated I agree. I do not agree that Ms. Hudson should be the poster child for what's wrong with the system. Not just because she's delusional but because I think it's wrong to use her situation to fight another battle.
This argument is being made because of emotion, exactly what the rwc are doing with Terri. Way too many people on du (not necessarily you) pass judgment without finding out what the facts are. We should leave that to the freepers.
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LisaL Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Mar-21-05 04:27 PM
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13. This guy is not off the hook-another facility agreed to take him in.
He has been in PVS for 10 years, but could breathe on his own. Now, he can no longer even breathe on his own, but his wife still wants him on life support. Her wish was granted because a facility agreed to take him in.
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LeftyMom Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Mar-21-05 02:06 PM
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7. Let's not
The woman is unhinged. I don't know if the woman was a nut to begin with ir if she's just taken her son's diagnosis and death very hard, but amongst other things she thinks she was impregnated by the sun. Which is why she named the kid Sun. Personally I think Helios Hudson would've sounded better, but whatever. :shrug:
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LisaL Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Mar-21-05 02:09 PM
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8. Oh, she was that way before. She didn't want prenatal
care because the SUN was supposed to make sure everything was fine.
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