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BABY TINSLEE AND LIFE SUPPORT

  • January 4, 2020
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Doctors at the Fort Worth hospital had planned to remove Tinslee from life support Nov. 10 after invoking Texas’ “10-day rule,” which can be employed when a family disagrees with doctors who say life-sustaining treatment should be stopped. The law stipulates that if the hospital’s ethics committee agrees with doctors, treatment can be withdrawn after 10 days if a new provider can be found to take the patient.Efforts to find another facility to take the girl have been unsuccessful. The...