Texas Woman Taken Off Life Support Against Family’s Wishes – Then a Pro-Life Group Stepped in

Donald Jones and his daughter, Kina, were preparing their final goodbyes this week as their wife and mom, Carolyn Jones, 61, who suffered a stroke in 2017 and has been transferred between different rehabilitation facilities, was about to be taken off life support. She was denied life-saving care by the ethics committee at Memorial Hermann Southwest in Houston after the hospital invoked a law allowing it to deny further care called the Texas 10-day Rule, which is part of  the Texas Advance Directives Act.

Texas Right to Life and other pro-life groups in the state rallied together after the plug was pulled and the hospital refused to give Jones dialysis. The groups transported her Wednesday using a private ambulance to a new hospital, and the woman began receiving dialysis on Thursday. Her daughter said that her mom is in stable condition and looks like herself once again.

“It’s kind of crazy that you try to get someone out of a hospital so their life could be saved,” Mark Dickson, director and vice president of Right to Life East Texas, who was with Jones and helped to orchestrate her “escape,” told Fox News.” He believes that the decision by the ethics committee had more to do with the family’s financial situation. The Jones’ and the pro-life groups want to change the law so that no other family has to endure what they did at the hand of the Texas 10-Day Law.

See Caleb Parke, Texas Woman Taken Off Life Support Against Family’s Wishes – Then a Pro-Life Group Stepped in, Fox News, May 17, 2019.