Hudson was born with thanatophoric dysplasia, a rare form of dwarfism that affects the development of the lungs and chest cavity. Essentially, the baby and his organs will grow, but the chest cavity won't. The child slowly suffocates to death. From the moment he was born, he needed a ventilator to breathe.
Mar 19, 2008 · The Sun Hudson case is one of several cases that have sparked a recent controversy over the Texas Advance Directives Act (Act), specifically ...
Aside from one of the questions raised by the Sun Hudson case of what should be done if the surrogate decision maker is incompetent, controversy revolves around ...
Mar 15, 2005 · "It's sad this (Sun Hudson case) dragged on for so long. It's always sad when an infant dies. We all feel it's unfair, that a child doesn't ...
This applies to Sun Hudson's case because an infant cannot make their own decisions. In most cases, the mother and father are the decision makers for their ...
In the Sun Hudson case, the Texas Children's Hospital ethics committee met with his mother on October 13, 2004, and told her that they agreed with ...
Sun Hudson case. The case of Sun Hudson concerned Wanda Hudson and her infant son, who was allowed to die via removal of his breathing tube, contrary to her ...
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