UPDATE: Life Legal Defense reports: “THANK YOU for your prayers and your overwhelming support for baby Israel! … We are still making calls and have not yet found a hospital, but there is a bit of GOOD NEWS! … We are thrilled to report that we now have an order in place that will prevent the hospital from withdrawing Israel’s life support through the weekend. Our next hearing is Monday afternoon. Please keep praying that we find a hospital for Israel that will provide him with a breathing tube and a feeding tube. This will allow him to be released to home care.”
Two-year-old Israel Stinson’s mother took him to the hospital during an asthma attack only a few weeks ago. CBS Sacramento reports that, after his arrival at the hospital, Israel “stopped breathing and doctors determined he was brain-dead. … Israel’s parents said he didn’t get oxygen for 40 minutes, causing severe brain injuries. They transferred him to Kaiser Permanente in Roseville where doctors came to the same conclusion.”
Tomorrow, the hospital plans to take Israel off of life support, even though his parents want to give him more time to wake back up, as he has begun to respond. Life Legal Defense Foundation, who is representing Israel’s parents, has released two videos of Israel that show him physically responding to his mother’s voice and touch.
Israel’s mother explains her son’s situation further, on the family’s GoFundMe page:
Life Legal Defense is asking for help from the public: “If we can get a neurologist to examine Israel and find that he is not brain dead, that could save his life. … If you know of a doctor, hospital, or other facility that may be able to help, please email info@lldf.org.”
It is unthinkable that a hospital would act so quickly to pull a child off of life support without an adequate opportunity to recover. At Israel’s age, the brain still has much development and growth to work through, and his current responses to his mother are promising. Hospitals should not be allowed to so blatantly and swiftly disregard the will of parents who are fighting to give their children a chance at life.
A week ago, LifeSiteNews spoke to Israel’s parents, Jonee Fonseca and Nathan Stinson, and discovered just how badly Kaiser forced its own choices on this family:
Israel’s situation is tragic, but it is not without hope. Life Legal Defense asks for prayers and for information, if anyone is aware of a doctor or facility willing to evaluate or care for Israel.
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