"Tom DeLay, what about Baby Sun?" Need this on a billboard

So the judges will be made to pay?

What about those responsible for pulling the plug on Baby Sun?

I plan to do a lot of "haunting" of DeLay and President Mightymouse with it.

:(
rocknation

I don't remember this and can't find anything on the net (go figure)

the hospital and ethics committee can opt to cease life-support against a parents/guardian wishes if the case is deemed "hopeless" and that there is no chance that the medical condition will reverse.

Sun was born to his mother, who did not have prenatal care. The doctors, not knowing what was wrong with him, put him on a ventilator. With the type of dwarfism he had, his lungs would never grow/mature.

Mother -- has never wanted life support to be taken. With the law, the parents/guardian have 10 days to find another facility to take the patient if doctors want to end life support. No facility wanted Sun. So, on March 15th, life support was ended.

http://cbs11tv.com/localstories/local_story_074205328.html

http://www.cnn.com/2005/US/03/15/lifesupport.baby.ap/

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O'Reilly Flip-Flops, Defends Texas Law That Allows Baby Sun Hudson to Die

Bill O'Reilly ran a segment yesterday (3/23/05) on the state-sanctioned termination of the life of 5-month-old Sun Hudson over the objections of his mother, Wanda, an indigent African-American resident of Houston, Texas. O'Reilly interviewed William Winslade, Ph. D, a bioethicist at the University of Texas-Galveston and Mario Caballero of Lone Star Legal Aid, who is Ms. Hudson's attorney.

more:http://www.newshounds.us/2005/03/24/oreilly_flipflops_defends_texas_law_that_allows_baby_sun_hudson_to_die.php

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So, all this is about "the haves and have mores", correct?

Damn, I am so sick of this man. And DeLay is no better - maybe much, much worse.

I have no problem with harassing DeLay over anything, but I have to say that I think letting baby Sun go was right. The infant had nothing but a small brain stem, no upper brain at all. I'm very sure of my information. I believe he had been transferred to 3 different hospitals, and there was no hope that he would ever be able to breathe, take nourishment, even open his eyes. His mother is a charismatic who believed there would be a miracle. Sometimes, the miracle is not what we thought it might be.

Give it to DeLay, but don't criticize the caregivers. They did the right thing.
morcatknits

http://onoekeh.blogspot.com/2005/03/remove-life-support-says-george-w-bush.html

... George W. Bush signed a law in Texas that expressly gave hospitals the right to remove life support if the patient could not pay and there was no hope of revival, regardless of the patient's family's wishes. It is called the Texas Futile Care Law. Under this law, a baby was removed from life support against his mother's wishes in Texas just this week. A 68 year old man was given a temporary reprieve by the Texas courts just yesterday


Mark A. R. Kleinman gives the details:

Sun Hudson, a six-month-old boy with a fatal congenital disease, died Thursday after a Texas hospital, over his mother's objections, withdrew his feeding tube. The child was apparently certain to die, but was conscious. The hospital simply decided that it had better things to do than keeping the child alive, and the Texas courts upheld that decision after the penniless mother failed, during the 10-day window provided for by Texas law, to find another institution willing to take the child .

Where, I would ask, is the outrage? In particular, where is the outrage from those like Tom DeLay, who referred to the withdrawal of Terry Schiavo's life support as "murder"? If it's appropriate to Federalize the Schiavo case, what about the people being terminated simply because their cases are hopeless and their bank accounts empty?

Sun Hudson is dead, but 68-year-old Spiro Nikolouzos is still alive, thanks to an emergency appeals court order issued yesterday. However, his life support could be cut off at any moment. A nursing home is willing to take him if his family can show that he will be covered by Medicaid after his Medicare runs out. Otherwise, the hospital gets to pull the plug.

...voting for the Schiavo bill and voting at the same time for Medicaid cuts -- which, under laws like the Texas law, means that people will have their plugs pulled not because their families want them to die sooner but because their health-care providers don't want to run up a bill for unpaid care -- is pretty damned outrageous.

Mr. Kleinman has more on this and his analysis on his page.

Where was the very concerned pro-life movement when G.W. Bush passed this law?

Where was the pro-life movement when this conscious 6 month old's life support was removed just this last week?