Premature Twins Died After Hospital Withholds Treatment, Despite Mom’s Desperate Pleas
Premature Twins Died After Hospital Withholds Treatment, Despite Mom’s Desperate Pleas – LifeNews.com
Pro-life advocates plan to hold a vigil Sunday at the Ohio Statehouse to remember premature twin boys who died in 2017 while their mother begged the hospital to provide care for them. Emery and Elliot Finnefrock died at Riverside Methodist Hospital in June 2017 after they were born at 22 weeks and five days of pregnancy.
New Study Shows Premature Babies Can Survive at Earlier Ages, But Will Hospitals Let Them Die? – LifeNews.com
A study published last week in the New England Journal of Medicine demonstrates widespread discriminatory denial of life-preserving medical treatment to premature infants based on fear that if assisted to live they might have disabilities – in defiance of protective federal law. It provided a startling snapshot into the treatment of very premature infants.
Ohio Hospital Ignores Babies’ Cries, Mother’s Pleas For Help | Created Equal
Twin preemie newborn boys Emery and Elliot died while staff at Riverside Methodist Hospital (Columbus, OH) refused to assist them. The boys’ mother, Amanda, had been told they would be stillborn or breathe only for a moment, but both were born alive.
