U.S. hospital refuses to help premature twins born alive, leaves them to die

[Noscentia]

Barbarism. This happened last year, but the involved party is only now making it public after the hospital refused to deal with the matter internally.

COLUMBUS, Ohio, May 23, 2018 (LifeSiteNews) – Twin premature newborn boys died at an Ohio hospital last year while staff stood by refusing to give them medical assistance, a pro-life group is reporting, and the hospital classified the boys’ deaths as stillbirth.

Both boys were born alive at 22 weeks and 5 days gestational age at Riverside Methodist Hospital in Columbus, according to the report.

The first born, Emery, survived for 45 minutes. His younger brother, Elliot, lived for two and a half hours, even crying, and his mother, Amanda, begged for help to no avail.

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U.S. hospital refuses to help premature twins born alive, leaves them to die

 

[~Anastasia~]

Lord have mercy.

I'm not one for supporting the litigious nature of the US, but in this case I would press every legal avenue to make as big an impression as possible, in hopes of preventing something so callous from happening again.

I pray the parents receive comfort. This is terrible. I can't imagine all of the medical staff involved can carry this easily on their souls. If they can - that's a very sad for them.

What a grievous thing. Lord have mercy.

 

[dzheremi]

Lord have mercy. Receive the souls of the innocent.

A truly tragic, unconscionable act. There really aren't words for the depths of depravity and horror involved in such a thing. While no amount of money or other results of legal recourse can ever really replace what has been purposely snuffed out in this case, I would certainly support something being done to prevent any repeat of this type of behavior in the future. It is murder, plain and simple. It ought to be viewed and treated as such.

 

[Noscentia]

I can't imagine all of the medical staff involved can carry this easily on their souls. If they can - that's a very sad for them.

This is what gets me the most. I know nurses et al don't take the hippocratic oath, but just as a human being I can't imagine what it must take inside someone to hear that mother's pleading and the cries of living children and stand by watching them die without something inside you dying just the same. Even if they're doing what they believe is correct purely by protocol, it's hard to believe their hearts simply endured all that easily for the mere sake of hospital policy (to say nothing of the doctors themselves.)

 

[JackRT]

This is what happens in a medical system based on the profit motive --- caring for these premature babies would have involved huge expense. If that is your bottom line, then it was a wise decision. The USA needs to decide it's priorities in this and similar cases. I know what my priority is.

 

[~Anastasia~]

This is what gets me the most. I know nurses et al don't take the hippocratic oath, but just as a human being I can't imagine what it must take inside someone to hear that mother's pleading and the cries of living children and stand by watching them die without something inside you dying just the same. Even if they're doing what they believe is correct purely by protocol, it's hard to believe their hearts simply endured all that easily for the mere sake of hospital policy (to say nothing of the doctors themselves.)

I have to say if I'm in such a position - "protocol be d---ed" (sorry I can't type that out). You can fire me. No amount of influence from human institutions should be able to make the soul comfortable with this.

I know there are some grey areas in some conundrums that people manage to convince themselves of, but how could anyone deny that these are human children, born alive, allowed to die due to medical neglect? It's unconscionable.

I hope they can all repent and don't harden their hearts in order to become comfortable with what they've done.

 

[JCFantasy23]

Heartbreaking and I can't imagine what the parents are going through to remember that day the rest of their lives, especially the baby crying for two hours. Hospitals are generally egotistical with anything prenatal I've found - they told the mother the babies would be stillborn or breathe for "a minute", but they were clearly wrong and still stood by their predictions. They tend to follow textbook examples with labor, delivery and infant development, but when they're wrong you can get articles like this where they still call the poor children 'stillborn.' Clearly these babies were not stillborn.