{"id":244874,"date":"2021-05-07T17:04:34","date_gmt":"2021-05-07T22:04:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.liveaction.org\/news\/?p=244874"},"modified":"2021-05-10T14:19:02","modified_gmt":"2021-05-10T19:19:02","slug":"texas-toddler-10-day-rule-fighting-improvement","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/texas-toddler-10-day-rule-fighting-improvement\/","title":{"rendered":"Texas toddler shows improvement while fighting for life against hospital and 10-Day Rule"},"content":{"rendered":"
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(Texas Right to Life<\/a>)\u00a0New court documents<\/a>\u00a0filed Thursday reveal Baby Tinslee Lewis, the two-year-old fighting for her life against the Texas 10-Day Rule, is improving.\u00a0Pictures<\/a>,\u00a0video<\/a>, and\u00a0sworn affidavits<\/a>\u00a0prove that Tinslee is completely awake, taking occupational therapy, and being weaned off pain medication.<\/p>\n

\u201c[Tinslee\u2019s] doctors have consistently told Trinity that she is doing better than they expected. And [Tinslee] has improved,\u201d said the motion from the Lewis\u2019 lawyers. Trinity, Tinslee\u2019s mother, stated that the hospital sits Tinslee \u201cup in a wheelchair most days.\u201d She is not stiff, no longer nasally intubated, and has been weaned off paralytics.<\/p>\n

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Tinslee became the center of international media attention in November 2019 when Cook Children\u2019s Medical Center in Fort Worth sought to pull the plug on the then-nine-month-old child against her mother\u2019s will.<\/p>\n

This is legal under the Texas 10-Day Rule (Chapter 166.046 of the Texas Health and Safety Code<\/a>). The law allows a hospital ethics committee to withdraw basic life-sustaining care, like a ventilator or dialysis, from a patient against her expressed will, her advance directive, or the instruction of her surrogate decision-maker. Ten days after informing the patient or surrogate of the committee\u2019s decision, the hospital can remove basic life-sustaining care from a patient. Committees can withdraw care for any reason and the patient cannot appeal the decision. Even if the patient is conscious, coherent, and actively requests to stay alive, the 10-Day-Rule allows the hospital to overrule the patient\u2019s will.<\/p>\n