by Office of the Texas Attorney General | Nov 22, 2019 | Assistance, Bioethics, Denial of Treatment, Euthanasia, Issues, News
AUSTIN – Attorney General Ken Paxton filed a friend-of-the-court brief with the District Court of Tarrant County in support of a nine-month-old baby girl who is fighting for her life after Cooks Children’s Medical Center in Fort Worth, Texas denied the baby’s mother’s...
by Texas Right to Life | Jun 26, 2019 | Denial of Treatment, Euthanasia, Media, News, Press Releases
HOUSTON – Carolyn Jones passed away Tuesday from natural causes following her high-profile battle with the Texas 10-Day Rule. In May, a hospital committee pulled the plug on Carolyn against her family’s will, but she lived without a ventilator or dialysis for...
by Texas Right to Life | Sep 11, 2017 | News
Pro-Life Texans have long known the danger of giving hospital administrators power over life and death decisions. Under the anti-Life Texas 10-Day-Law, countless vulnerable Texans have been denied life-sustaining treatment against their written or spoken wishes or...
by Texas Right to Life | Jul 17, 2017 | Legislation, News
UPDATE: Texas lawmakers passed a bill in 2023 that extends the countdown from 10 days to 25 days and provides other tools to help patients facing this deadly law. Under current Texas law, the Texas Advance Directives Act (TADA, Chapter 166.046 of the Texas Health and...
