JimBowie1958
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- Sep 25, 2011
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Well conservatives predicted that it would eventually arrive at a point where doctors would control that decision and all the hooplah at the time was really about getting the public to accept the idea of pulling the plug on a living person.
Well here we are already.
Family of brain-dead Jahi McMath sues to have her declared alive | Fox News
Jahi's mom, Nailah Winkfield, is suing in federal court various entities that include the state of California to have her daughter declared legally alive, reportsCourthouse News Service.
She "wishes to have her daughter's basic human right, to life, restored to her so that she can return to California" from New Jersey. Jahi is currently under care in the latter state, which allows a religious exemption to rulings about brain death, notes CBS News.
"I want her to have the same rights as any other disabled kid," says Winkfield, per the AP. Should Jahi leave New Jersey without such a declaration, per the suit, "she could be refused treatment, unplugged, even shot, without repercussion as she is legally dead in California." Getting the death certificate overturned would allow the family to move Jahi back to Oakland and have insurers cover her medical bills, the family attorney tells AP.
Winkfield says in her lawsuit that Jahi shows signs of life, ....
Well here we are already.
Family of brain-dead Jahi McMath sues to have her declared alive | Fox News
Jahi's mom, Nailah Winkfield, is suing in federal court various entities that include the state of California to have her daughter declared legally alive, reportsCourthouse News Service.
She "wishes to have her daughter's basic human right, to life, restored to her so that she can return to California" from New Jersey. Jahi is currently under care in the latter state, which allows a religious exemption to rulings about brain death, notes CBS News.
"I want her to have the same rights as any other disabled kid," says Winkfield, per the AP. Should Jahi leave New Jersey without such a declaration, per the suit, "she could be refused treatment, unplugged, even shot, without repercussion as she is legally dead in California." Getting the death certificate overturned would allow the family to move Jahi back to Oakland and have insurers cover her medical bills, the family attorney tells AP.
Winkfield says in her lawsuit that Jahi shows signs of life, ....
