Charge the doctors with conspiracy to murder.  That will put them straight.

Savage culture.  That’s what we’ve become.  And abortion led us here.

Mississippi is not alone in the modern debate over the sanctity of life. More  than 4,000 miles away, the Netherlands is caught up in its own controversy over  a proposal from the Dutch Medical Association (KNMG) to expand the definition of  who may qualify for assisted suicide — including for the first time such  nonmedical factors as loneliness and financial struggles… (Source)

What a sick and twisted society the Netherlands is….and this exit strategy is soon coming to Canada, too, just you wait and see.  I give it 10 years….provided civilization is still around as we know it.

Sorry, but your “right to die” becomes thousands of people’s “duty to die”.

That’s how it’s played out in Europe. And it’s not a pretty picture.

Excellent article de Jeanne Smits.

La pente glissante de l’euthanasia est bien huilée.

The United Nations is debating injecting euthanasia into the right to health and is considering a new treaty on the rights of the elderly to end their own lives for the “benefit of society”.

Cardinal Sean O’Malley of Boston is urging Catholics to opposition a ballot initiative that would legalize assisted suicide in Massachusetts.

“We hope the citizens of the Commonwealth will not be seduced by language [such as ] dignity and compassion, which are means to disguise the sheer brutality of helping people to kill themselves,” he preached at a September 18 Red Mass. “Allowing physicians to prescribe the means for their patients to kill themselves is a corruption of the medical profession. It even violates the Hippocratic Oath, that has guided physicians for thousands of years.”

“We as a society will be judged on how we respond . . . to those who believe their lives have diminished in value,” he added. “Most people, regardless of their [religious beliefs] know that suicide is a tragedy, one that a compassionate society should work to prevent.” (Source)

But you’ll still give the politicians who advocate for this crime a public funeral mass, your Eminence.

When you get serious about obeying the Church’s laws and letting those laws impact your pastoral practice, then maybe we’ll all take you more seriously when you preach.  Until then, it’s all just talk.

Talk. Talk. Talk.

Very good news.

Harper won’t reopen the abortion debate, but at least I don’t expect the culture of death to make any legislative gains during his mandate

WINDSOR, Ontario, April 21, 2011 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Baby Joseph and his family arrived in Windsor, Ontario on a medical transport flight from St. Louis, Missouri this morning. He is now at the family home, according to Brother Paul O’Donnell.

On behalf of Baby Joseph’s family, Brother O’Donnell told LifeSiteNews that that their son was weaned off ventilator support 12 days ago and has been successfully breathing on his own since then. 

Baby Joseph, who has been at the center of an international right-to-life debate over the past few months, has defied critics by responding so well to treatment.  After the Ontario hospital treating Joseph’s progressive and terminal neurological disease threatened to remove his life support against his parents’ wishes earlier this year, pro-life groups rallied to Joseph’s cause….

How sad that there are so many institutions that give up on life.  If we were to have left this up to the London hospital and the Diocese of London, Baby Joseph would have likely been dead by now.  Thank God for faithful priests like Fr. Frank Pavone.

Once again this underscores the real need for REPENTANCE in the Catholic Church in Canada and around the world…starting with the bishops.

Thank you, Lord, for revealing your truths to mere children and keeping them from the wise.  In their foolish speculations, you have been vindicated. 

It is fitting we are entering the season of the Resurrection.  Let Baby Joseph remind us all that life is a gift from God — to be respected and cherished.

Baby Joseph Maraachli Heading to Pediatric Hospital Soon

Our prayers have been answered! Baby Joseph has been transferred to a hospital in St. Louis.

Thanks to all who prayed and fasted.  Praise God!

Socon or Bust is calling for a North American Fast to save Baby Joseph’s life .

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The family only asked to bring Joseph home; but to do so would require Joseph to be capable of breathing on his own. This is why they requested that a tracheotomy be done. A tracheotomy is not a difficult procedure; it is not futile, burdensome or extra-ordinary. (Source)

This whole tragedy would have been avoided if the parents retained their proper authority in our current culture of death.  And what stops the parents from exercising their authority in this matter?

Money.

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UPDATE:  FAST AGAINST THE DEATH PANEL!

Let me get this straight.

Baby Joseph is about to have his tubes pulled which will mean he will die.

Fr. Pavone, the American pro-life priest and head of Priests for Life, has offered to pay to have Baby Joseph moved to a U.S. hospital.

The Washington-based Christian Defense Coalition announced Tuesday that they and the Terri Schiavo Life and Hope Network are holding two prayer gatherings in London, Ontario this weekend for Joseph. The prayer and public witness events will be on Saturday, March 5, from 12:00-2:00 p.m. and Sunday, March 6, from 1:00-3:00 p.m. in front of the London Health Sciences Centre’s Children’s Hospital.  They will be held on the corner of Wellington and Commissioners Rd. There will also be a rally in support of Joseph’s family on Saturday from 4:00-6:00 p.m.  Location to be announced. (Source)

So the Americans are coming into our own backyard to save a Canadian baby?

Do I have that right?

Where is Bishop Fabbro, the Chair of the Ad Hoc Commitee for Life and Family, in all of this? This whole drama is happening in his own backyard (London) and there has not even been a press release or statement from the Diocese expressing support for the family in a very important pro-life battle in this country.  There does not appear to be anything on their flashy new website about anything concerning Baby Joseph or the controversy at all.  Am I missing something? Surely the diocese has said or done something about this crisis. 

There’s a lot of talk about “stepping up” on pro-life issues by our bishops, but when a REALLY, REALLY BIG ONE PRESENTS ITSELF, nothing gets said or done.  We always have to pull and drag them, sometimes kicking and screaming,  to do their jobs.

Not surprising, of course…considering.

And what about the CCCB?  There’s nothing about it on their website either – just the “big news” on which bishops get shuffled where.  Here we have our own case of Terri Schiavo and the Canadian Church, once again, is missing in action.  We’ve got international attention on our death panels. We’ve got Americans coming over here to take control, and our <ahem> “leadership” is MIA.  All of this previous talk by the bishops about “taking a leadership” role in the pro-life fight is just slick PR for the hierarchy and the bureaucratic machinery.  We have this tragic drama playing out before our eyes and there has not been one Church leader (from what I have seen to date) that has raised a finger to help.  Where’s Salt+Light TV, by the way?  Any coverage of it on their station or their blog to date? Nope. Too controversial, you see.  After all, as Fr. Rosica says:

“We never set ourselves up in opposition to something or someone. We’re an alternative to what’s out there on television.” (Source)

Memo to our bishops and other influential church politicians:  if you want credibility on Life Issues: TRY ANSWERING THE DOOR WHEN THEY ARRIVE ON YOUR DOORSTEP

….FOR A CHANGE.

This is what Obama was referring to when he said that health care would be administered based on “science.” Actually, in this case it is more “finance” that is the driving force. It would cost the hospital to perform a tracheotomy on the child – it’s much less expensive just to cut the breathing tube and let him die on site. This child is nothing more than a budget line item to the Canadian government wonks in charge of making this decision.

The Americans are now talking about it.

H/T Deborah Gyapong

Everyone, please take at least one step of action to assist baby Joseph and his parents

Dear FCP Supporters and Members:

In the last press release I did not include “What You Can Do”.  Everyone, please take at least one step of action to assist.  This is a euthanasia issue.  If the hospital wins, it will set a precedent to open the doors for euthanasia and hospital supremacy over parents. We must tell our government, and our hospitals that this is not acceptable. Please see “What Can You Do!” – after the press release…

For Immediate Release

Baby Joseph Maraachli: Ontario’s Anti-Family Health‘Care’

February 26, 2011, London, ON London Health Sciences Centre’s dealing with baby Joseph is disrespectful of the family!

Thirteen-month old Joseph Maraachli has a rare neurological disease. He is currently in at the London Health Sciences Centre in London, Ontario receiving medical treatment. Joseph’s parents, Sana Nader and Moe Maraachli, had requested that hospital perform a tracheotomy on Joseph so that he could go home to pass away in his home under the care of his parents. The parents believe with a tracheotomy, their son could breathe and live out the remainder of his little life from the comfort of his home. The hospital denied them this request.

Health care officials determined that Baby Joseph should be taken off his ventilator. A judge then compelled Moe Maraachli to comply with the decision to remove his son from the ventilator. Moe Maraachli did what every loving father would do, and would not consent. Joseph’s parents fear that without the ventilator, Joseph will suffocate and die. The hospital moved, then, to have an approval to remove the ventilator without parental consent.

Joseph’s parents tried to get him transferred to a Michigan hospital. On Wednesday, The Children’s Hospital of Michigan contacted the London Health Sciences Centre denying the transfer. The London hospital had been waiting to see if the boy could be transferred before pursuing the option of removing breathing tubes without parental consent. The hospital filed a request to remove the breathing tubes with the Ontario’s Office of the Public Guardian and Trustee.

This story is full of twists and turns. sounds like it comes out of an ethics textbook. But it doesn’t; it is a real story with real consequences for a real family. Phil Lees, Leader of the Family Coalition Party is most concerned about the disregard of the input of the parents, “The infringement on parental rights in this case is astounding. That a hospital would seek permission to bypass parents’ wishes and remove their baby’s ventilator is unbelievable. The family accepts that baby Joseph’s condition is terminal, but to actively seek legal support to go against the wishes of the family for a natural, unassisted death is anti-family.”

The family fears Joseph will suffer a painful choking death if the ventilator is removed. They have requested that   doctors perform a tracheotomy on Joseph so they can take him home to die surrounded by family – the hospital has refused.  The family’s Baby daughter, Zina, had a similar condition eight years ago; doctors performed the tracheotomy and Zina lived for six months after being taken home. 

This issue will set a frightening precedent. The result could encourage other health care providers to disregard the life-respecting requests of patients, their families, and those with power of attorney for personal care. We must re-set the moral compass of the health care system. This issue matters to all Ontarians!

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Phil Lees, Leader of the Family Coalition Party

Phone – 905 538 5327 (office)    869 6334 (cell)

email – mainoffice@familycoalitionparty.com               www.familycoalitionparty.com 

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What can you do?

First: Tell people what you think about it! You can call, e-mail or write to Premier Dalton McGuinty, Leader of the Opposition Tim Hudak, and/or Bonnie Adamson (President and CEO of London Health Sciences Centre). Encourage others to do the same. Don’t stop talking about this until it is resolved.

Premier Dalton McGuinty, 416-325-3745, https://correspondence.premier.gov.on.ca/en/feedback/feedback.aspx

Tim Hudak (Leader of the Opposition), 1-800-903-6453, tim.hudakco@pc.ola.org

Bonnie Adamson, Administrator, London Health Sciences Centre, 519-685-8462, bonnie.adamson@lhsc.on.ca

Secondly: The Euthanasia Prevention Coalition has a special appeal on their website encouraging people to donate to the family’s legal costs, which are increasing quickly. If you can, please help this family.

Contribute using Master Card, Visa, Pay Pal at  http://www.euthanasiaprevention.on.ca