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Texas Hospital Impeding Mother’s Attempt to Save Baby’s Life

Texas Hospital Impeding Mother’s Attempt to Save Baby’s Life
Children's drawings are put up on a wall in a patient's room in an intensive care unit at the United Memorial Medical Center in Houston, Texas on July 2, 2020. Go Nakamura/Getty Images
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Imagine you are the parent of a baby girl, who’s desperately ill with severe breathing difficulties, a heart valve defect, and diagnosed as suffering from severe chronic pulmonary hypertension.

Wesley J. Smith
Wesley J. Smith
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Award-winning author Wesley J. Smith is host of the Humanize Podcast (Humanize.today), chairman of the Discovery Institute’s Center on Human Exceptionalism and a consultant to the Patients Rights Council. His latest book is “Culture of Death: The Age of ‘Do Harm’ Medicine.”
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