Simon’s Law Resuscitates PARENTAL RIGHTS
in Critical Medical Decisions

STOP the Genocide in US Hospitals!

Hospitals across our nation are permeated with a Nazi-style eugenics approach to medical care, which increasingly discriminates against differently-abled children by blatantly disregarding your PARENTAL RIGHT to make informed decisions concerning the administration of life-sustaining care. While both passive and active euthanasia were once unheard of, it is now perfectly legal in most states for a doctor to unilaterally decide that your precious child is not worthy of life and instruct medical staff to withhold resuscitative measures, by placing a Do Not Resuscitate (DNR) order in your minor child’s medical chart without making any effort to obtain your explicit informed consent.

In a society that idolizes choice – from “your way right away” fast food to a culture of so-called “reproductive freedom,” one would assume that a decision to choose life with full interventions would be readily accepted and honored. However, going against “expert” medical recommendations by choosing life-sustaining care for children believed to be cognitively impaired, due to their apparent or anticipated inability to communicate sufficiently, requires constant vigilance, education, and advocacy by parents. This is because doctors are acting within the authority of their facility’s futility policy to forgo cardiopulmonary resuscitative (CPR) measures; and, even delay, withhold, or deny the administration of life-sustaining nutrition, hydration, and oxygen, to children whom “evidence based scientific conscience” deem incompatible with life.

No matter when or why life-sustaining care is necessitated, EVERY PARENT should be outraged to know that a complete stranger could be making critical life or death medical decisions for your cherished child behind your back! These are difficult and complex decisions with grave ramifications resting squarely on the shoulders of parents. Thus, your RIGHT to CHOOSE what is best for your beloved child’s medical care should be held in the highest regard!

Simon Was Medically Murdered!

Simon Crosier was born in Missouri during 2010, with repairable congenital anomalies. Once a diagnosis of intellectual disability was added, it was noticeably accompanied by a significant reduction in the quality of medical care administered. Less than three months later, Simon experienced cardiopulmonary arrest and his parents pleaded with NICU staff to intervene. Yet, to the Crosiers’ shock and dismay, neither Simon’s blaring monitor alarms nor his panicking parents compelled any medical personnel to spring into action or initiate a “code blue” resuscitation.

It wasn’t until one of Simon’s nurses remorsefully confessed that medical staff were prohibited from yielding to the Crosiers’ frantic pleas for resuscitation, that Simon’s parents investigated further. The nurse insistence that they closely examine Simon’s medical records – which revealed a doctor-instituted DNR. They also discovered that the evident reduction in medical care quality callously included systematic starvation and the administration of contraindicated medication, with the intention of suppressing Simon’s respiratory drive. But the most shocking revelation of all was that theirs was NOT an isolated incident!

Simon Means “To Be Heard”

Three weeks after Simon’s death, his mother, Sheryl Crosier, began pouring her heart and grief into writing I Am Not a Syndrome–My Name is Simon. The publication of this book led to media interviews and speaking engagements – one of which resulted in a providential encounter with Bill Kidd, who was later elected to Missouri’s House of Representatives drafted the very first version of Simon’s Law. Rep. Kidd fortuitously introduced Simon’s Law on the fifth anniversary of the exact day and time Simon passed from this life.

The primary objective of Simon’s Law is to restore healthcare equity and PARENTAL RIGHTS in decisions relating to life-sustaining care (based on the presumption that the continuation of life is in the minor’s best interest), by STOPPING doctors from instituting DNRs without the (uncoerced) written informed consent of parents. This includes a requirement to aid in the smooth and speedy access of alternative opinions and to cooperatively facilitate a seamless life-sustaining transfer to a different facility. Furthermore, transparency is required on any existing policies involving resuscitation or life-sustaining measures.

Simon’s Law Enacted

While the journey of legislation does not run smoothly, progress is being made:

• In 2017, Kansas became the first state to enact Simon’s Law.

• In 2019, Arizona, South Dakota, and the Crosiers’ home state of Missouri followed suit.

• In 2020, Iowa, Idaho, and Alabama joined the ranks of Simon Safe States.

• In 2021, Arkansas passed similar legislation, while Georgia passed a version of Gracie’s Law containing Simon’s Law language.

• In 2024, Utah amended existing medical statutes to insert similar protections.

• Additionally, the statutes of Oklahoma and Virginia already contain similar provisions.

It Is Time To Move Forward!

Near the close of 2024, Sheryl Crosier and company were honored to attend our first legislative conferences, where we appealed to hundreds of elected officials for PARENTAL RIGHTS, disability justice, and healthcare equity, in order to protect the Tabithas of society from Simon’s fate. The opportunity to interact face-to-face with sympathetic legislators from multiple states in one place was most rewarding. Not only were we blessed to form connections with other like-minded organizations, but we were also encouraged by the receptiveness towards Simon’s Law. In fact, legislators from both Maine and Colorado subsequently introduced Simon’s Law in 2025.

Overall, the conventions themselves were also tremendously uplifting. We departed fully charged with a renewed sense of urgency to see such PARENTAL RIGHTS legislation enacted nationwide. Therefore, we are hopeful that the current Congressional climate will usher in passage of the Simon Crosier Act, which seeks to “amend titles XVIII and XIX of the Social Security Act to require providers of services and health maintenance organizations under the Medicare and Medicaid programs to provide for certain policies to be in place relating to do-not-resuscitate orders or similar physician’s orders for unemancipated minors receiving services.”

Since these annual conference appearances are most beneficial to the awareness, education, and advancement of Simon’s Law PARENTAL RIGHTS legislation, we humbly entreat your generous contributions to underwrite the $5,000/event expenses relating to travel, lodging, dinning, registration, and promotional materials, for 10-12 legislative conference and committee testimony appearances per year. Legislators interested in sample bill language to introduce in your state may E-mail [email protected].