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.