Baby Tinslee Lewis was born in late February 2019 with a rare heart defect and was placed on extracorporeal membrane oxygenation, a machine that fulfilled the functions of her heart and lungs. By the time she was ten months old, Cook Children’s Medical Center in Fort Worth, Texas, stated that her condition required long-term life-sustaining treatment and that simple palliative care such as feeding and bathing could cause serious complications. Her physicians wanted to terminate their care for Tinslee because they believed that continuing care was only postponing an inevitable death, but Tinslee’s mother wanted to continue treatment.
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