Withdrawal Of Treatment

Save Baby Isaiah

Sheila Liaugminas | 23 January 2010
He is disabled (see post below). His parents got a ’stay of execution’ (so to speak) from having his ventilator removed in a medical system forced to ration. Anyone not in that system may find this exceptional. It is not, sad to say.

‘You allow them to die’

Sheila Liaugminas | 23 January 2010
This us such a jarring thought, the idea that only some lives are worth saving, especially in the days when we’re still haging onto every news story of an against-the-odds save in Haiti.
 
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