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Tuesday, May 03, 2005

Where are Randall Terry and Tom DeLay?
Posted by Jill | 7:53 AM

Shouldn't they be involved in this, if they revere human life so much? Or is it OK to kill babies as long as you're a Republican?

A baby's life support battle continues but time is running out for baby Knya. The five-month-old is on life support at Memorial Hermann Hospital. The deadline to stop treatment is Sunday.

Could the sad case Knya Dismuke be entering a new phase? Her parents are certainly hoping so. The child is currently slated to be removed from medical treatment at Memorial Hermann Hospital next Monday.

Knya was diagnosed with leukemia in December. She underwent treatment at MD Anderson Cancer Center, but was later returned to Hermann Hospital, about three months later.
A committee at Hermann Hospital has decided to discontinue medical care. With chemotherapy, doctors say the child has about a 5% chance of survival. Without it, she has about two weeks to live.

On Monday morning the child's mother told Eyewitness News that her caseworker suggested Texas Children's Hospital might be in the process of reviewing this case and could assume Knya as a patient.

Tamiko Dismuke said, "I doubt that they were going to accept her because they have turned her down in the past. But (the caseworker) said that was on a different case. So we're looking at trying to get her transferred. If they accept her, that's great. If they don't, then we just have other plans to go other places."

If the family doesn't make a decision by next Monday, medical treatment will be discontinued at Memorial Hermann Hospital, except for the drugs and the care to relieve pain and suffering.


It's Texas, where George W. Bush signed a law allowing hospitals to withhold life support from patients unable to pay. And guess what race Knya Dismuke Howard is.

(via Atrios)
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