03/25/05

While Americans were riveted by dramatic events unfolding in Pinellas Park, FL, a five-month-old Houston baby took his last breath after a hospital let him die despite his mother's objections. Sun Hudson was born Sept. 25 with thanatophoric dysplasia, an incurable and fatal form of dwarfism. Doctors said his tiny lungs would never fully grow and that he would never breathe on his own. Hudson's mother, Wanda, put up a fight when doctors advised removing Sun from a respirator. She said she did not believe in sickness or death. But on March 15, a Texas law signed by then-Gov. George W. Bush in 1999 allowed the hospital to go ahead and take Sun off the respirator in defiance of Wanda Hudson's wishes...

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,151448,00.html


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp