The Terri Schiavo Life & Hope Network upholds human dignity through service to the medically vulnerable.
We express this mission through public advocacy of essential qualities of human dignity—which include the right to food and water, the presumption of the will to live, due process against denial of care, protection from euthanasia as a form of medicine, and access to rehabilitative care—as well as through 24/7 Crisis Lifeline service to at-risk patients and families.
Why do we advocate due process against denial of care?
Should strangers be able to decide whether a patient lives or dies? We believe patients and families in crisis who have to make life and death decisions should be able to do so in peace, and without the pressure of an overzealous group of doctors, hospital ethics committees, or insurers deciding whether someone deserves to be denied life-sustaining care simply because their care is expensive.
Context
Evolution News and Views, American Medical Association Playing "Hide the Ball" with Futile Care Rule?, Wesley J. Smith, July 16, 2016
Pro-Life Health Care Alliance, Impacts of “Futile Care Theory” in Texas, April 8, 2015
The Daily Caller, 'Futile Care' Duty To Die May Be Coming To A Hospital Near You, Wesley J. Smith, May 11, 2012
First Things, Futile Care Theory: Bioethicists Should Stop Pretending They Are Doing Patients a Favor, Wesley J. Smith, May 30, 2010
First Things, Filing Lawsuit Stops Hospital From Imposing Futile Care Treatment Cutoff Against Infant, Wesley J. Smith, November 24, 2009
First Things, Reason Not to Dehydrate: Man Speaking After 23 Years in Locked-In State, Wesley J. Smith, November 23, 2009
First Things, Obamacare: Government Funded Studies Pushing Toward Futile Care Rationing?, Wesley J. Smith, October 16, 2009
First Things, Obamacare Roadmap: Under "Healthcare Reform" Will We Still Get to Decide About End-of-Life Care?, Wesley J. Smith, July 7, 2009
First Things, The Left Begins to "Get" The Threat of Futile Care Theory: Mickey Kaus Wants To Decide For Himself, Wesley J. Smith, June 21, 2009
LifeSiteNews.com, Toddler Emilio Gonzales Dies Naturally from Terminal Illness, Gudrun Schultz, May 22, 2007
LifeSiteNews.com, Andrea Clark Dies of Natural Causes, Hilary White, May 8, 2006
Discovery Institute, Death by Ethics Committee: Refusing to Treat Lives Deemed Unworthy of Living, Wesley J. Smith, April 27, 2006
National Review, Doc Knows Best: It'll Be Too Late For You, If He's Wrong, Wesley J. Smith, January 6, 2003
Christian Life Resources, Killing Them Softly: The Futile-Care Revolution, Wesley J. Smith, November 1, 2000
