Note: Newly found info. on this precious baby, Luke Winston-Jones,
will be posted on my site ASAP. Keep checking back to learn more!
Melissa Friday, 10-22-04


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From: "Pamela Hennessy" <phenn@...>
To: "Pamela Hennessy" <phenn@...>
Subject: urgent:- Luke Winston-Jones's case in the HighCourt
Date sent: Tue, 19 Oct 2004 14:45:29 -0400

Thanks to S for forwarding this important action item along.
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7:15 AM
Subject: urgent

For your urgent attention It was sent to me by a Colin Barnes,
Disability Studies Lecturer, University of Leeds


Hello everyone.

Only days after the High Court ruled that it is OK for doctors to
refuse to offer life support to Charlotte Whyatt, the family of
another disabled baby are facing the same Right to Life battle.

Luke Winston-Jones's mother Ruth will be at the High Court in London
this coming Thursday and Friday to fight for her son's life.

As Ruth says "Luke is a beautiful child who has real quality of life
and is full of personality. Luke's biggest health problem at the
moment is the hole he has in his heart which Alder Hey and other
hospitals in the UK have refused to correct due to the fact that Luke
has Edwards syndrome. Luke is being refused the treatment he so
vitally needs, even though children with Edwards can live many years."

Luke's family have asked disabled people and their allies to show
their solidarity by coming to the courts on either 21st or 22nd
October and or to sign the following petition.


If you want to get involved simply cut and paste the following and
add your name and address on sending.

Petition

We do not think that judges and medical staff should be able to
decide on who should or should not receive life saving treatment on
the basis of disability / impairment. We support Luke Winston-
Jones Equal Rights to Life. We call upon Parliament to amend the
Disability Discrimination Act so that disabled children like Luke
have equal right to life and access to life saving treatment.


Send emails of support to: mail@...


Please disseminate to others widely and very quickly.

FREEOURPEOPLE

Colin Revell

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