This beautiful little girl’s parents are suing:
A Quebec couple is launching a lawsuit against Montreal Children’s Hospital after their severely-ill newborn daughter was put back on life support without their consent….They said they agreed to withdraw respiratory support and later, at the suggestion of doctors, to withdraw the artificial feeding.
Point one: babies don’t feed themselves. “Withdrawing artificial feeding” amounts to starving a baby to death.
Now, 15 months later, Laurendeau has been forced to quit her job to take care of Phebe full time. Phebe is neither deaf nor blind. But she cannot hold up her head, sit up, or babble as another baby her age would, and she is fed through a hole in her stomach. She does smile at her parents, though, a recent breakthrough they are thrilled with, CTV’s Genevieve Beauchemin reported.
Let’s sum this case up. These parents are suing because their baby is not dead. That thrill from her smile? Apparently, only if the price is right.
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After reading the article, my gut feeling is that the facts are incomplete or oversimplified for the news story. How much of the “parent’s [sic] decision” was reversed by the ethics committee? Did they replace the respirator and the feeding tube, or just the feeding tube after Phebe demonstrated her ability to breathe unassisted? The latter is a much different ethical concern than the former – “cannot live without food” versus “cannot breathe,” as you point out.
Even if the hospital ultimately is found to have made the wrong decision, it’s a good thing there are “ethics committees” out there capable of working through thorny issues like this rationally, rather than having to rely solely on a parent’s decision in the heat of the moment.
The fact that the parents can decide whether or not the baby should be fed or starve to death is nothing less than the legal recognition of “euthanasia”. It is beyond me that this kind of things is allowed to happen though to my knowledge no political or people’s decision has been made. Or to put it more precisely: such questions should not be decided by popular vote. Life is sacred. Full stop.