One-Year-Old Girl Can Be Removed From Life Support, Texas Court Rules - WSJ

“Tinslee Lewis is terminally ill and tragically there is no chance she will recover,” he said. “The pro-life position does not mean the law must require physicians to use medical interventions that are only prolonging suffering.”

Yes, but it’s wrong to frame these decisions around the subjective measure of pain or suffering.

In this case, there’s broad professional consensus that further treatments are unlikely to bring an improvement in condition. Removing life support is not done to cause natural death, but rather is the ethical decision to cease ineffective medical treatments even though death may result.