Nine month old Tinslee Lewis was scheduled to die today (11/11/19), based on a Fort Worth hospital’s decision to remove her ventilator under the Texas futility law. The nation’s most infamous futility law provides for ten days notice and you’re dead — unless another willing medical provider takes over.
From news video, it does not appear that Tinslee is being declared “brain dead”, or even unconscious. She seems quite responsive. After her story hit the news over the weekend, a Texas court has reportedly granted a temporary restraining order and extension till November 22.
Here’s a news video interviewing Tinslee’s mother:
There’s also information on the Project TX Fragile Kids Facebook page.
The National Council on Disability’s bioethics report on Medical Futility will be issued November 20, 2019.
What the actual hell…the average life expectancy for someone with this is 37 yrs. This baby isn’t brain dead. She is sedated so she doesn’t mess with tubes and so her heart and lungs aren’t over taxed. Why isn’t she on a transplant list? We don’t kill people because they might be in pain…we help them. I get it if the person is brain dead or looking at zero quality of life/consciousness, but that’s not the case with this little girl. Shame on this hospital…it’s all about money …too many hospitals are being run as private for profit businesses with top dogs making upper six figures while cutting care and staff because of budget issues.