This is the second post in a series started this morning.

See the posts below, about Schiavo, where I talk about the rumor that George Bush had signed a law in Texas allowing hospitals to kill brain dead patients IF THEIR FAMILY COULD NOT PAY TO KEEP THEM ALIVE.

And the excerpt I quoted from a DailyKOS diary mentioned that a BABY had already been killed against his parent’s wishes under this law.

I DOUBTED the accuracy of the DailyKOS diary.

No more doubts, it seems. The excerpt below seems to confirm the dead baby story.

Case is the first in which a judge allowed a hospital to discontinue care
By LEIGH HOPPER
Copyright 2005 Houston Chronicle

The baby wore a cute blue outfit with a teddy bear covering his bottom. The 17-pound, nearly 6-month-old boy wiggled with eyes open, his mother said, and smacked his lips.
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“I talked to him, I told him that I loved him. Inside of me, my son is still alive.”

Wanda Hudson ,
mother of Sun Hudson
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Then at 2 p.m. Tuesday, a medical staffer at Texas Children’s Hospital gently removed the breathing tube that had kept Sun Hudson alive since his birth Sept. 25. Cradled by his mother, he took a few breaths, and died.

“I talked to him, I told him that I loved him. Inside of me, my son is still alive,” Wanda Hudson told reporters afterward. “This hospital was considered a miracle hospital. When it came to my son, they gave up in six months. … They made a terrible mistake.”

Sun’s death marks the first time a U.S. judge has allowed a hospital to discontinue an infant’s life-sustaining care against a parent’s wishes, according to bioethical experts. A similar case involving a 68-year-old man in a vegetative state at another Houston hospital is before a court now.