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 – with no 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. 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 who are deemed “incompatible with life” by supposed “evidence based scientific conscience.”
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 decide 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 insisted 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 the Crosier’s experience 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.
