Texas “pro-life” groups are divided over the prospect of removing the respirator and feeding tubes from 11-month-old Tinslee, who was born with incurable heart and pulmonary defects and has been on life support since she was a newborn.
Tinslee’s mother, Trinity Lewis, is in a legal battle to keep her daughter alive and receiving medical care indefinitely or until she is able to find another hospital to treat Tinslee. Lewis maintains that Tinslee is not suffering despite what Tinslee’s doctors at Cook Children’s Medical Center in Fort Worth, Texas, say. She says Tinslee is “sassy,” loves the animated movie Trolls, and doesn’t like to have her hair brushed. Texas Right to Life, the state’s oldest and largest anti-abortion group, has defended her assertion that she, as the mother, should have the final say in any end-of-life decision.
