In case you’ve missed this truly awful story. In Canada, a family is fighting for the right to care for their sick 13 month old child. “Baby Joseph” has a severe neurological disorder and is is on a ventilator in a hospital in London, Ontario. His parents are very aware that their son is not going to recover, but they also don’t want him to die in the hospital. So, they have requested a tracheotomy so that he can be cared for and die peacefully at home. Seems like a reasonable request. That’s how they cared for a daughter who died of a similar condition eight years ago But doctors have refused and insist on just removing Joseph’s ventilator and letting him die in the hospital. The case was brought before a Superior Court Judge in Canada who ruled in the doctors’ favor, and now, according to Moe Maraachli, Joseph’s father, hospital security is denying them private visits!:
“Security watch me and security stay with me…When I go to hospital I feel I am not in Canada. I feel I’m in jail or they kidnapped my baby.”
Awful. And unnecessary! It’s not like they could just take him out of the hospital, he’d die right away. That’s what they need the tracheotomy for. In its defense, the hospital says that it has amped up security “given the public interest in this case and the emotions involved in it.” Though, they have not actually received any threats.
I just read that the Michigan hospital they were hoping to get Joseph transferred to has declined. So now, it seems, his fate really is sealed. Awful. But his family is not giving up hope.
This, of course, has raised concerns about universal government health-care. Dr. Gerard Nadal reflects on When Hospitals Become Gulags. Awful.
Prayer: You have given the sick and the suffering a share in your cross, give them patience and strength. Save those you have redeemed by your blood, Lord.
*UPDATE* See video of Baby Joseph
Last week 
Dr. Bernard Nathanson was one of the founding members of NARAL and the director of one of the Nation’s largest abortion facilities in the 1970s. In the late 60s and early 70s he helped his fellow abortion advocates lie about fetal development and illegal abortion statistics in order to push for legalized abortion. He as said that he is personally personally responsible for the killing of 75,000 unborn children, personally killing thousands himself, including one of his own.
The House is debating the 
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the requirement to show reverence and love for every person and the life of every person.” This is not only true for weakest and most innocent members of our society – the poor, the sick, the unborn, the elderly, the embryo in a petri dish – but it includes loving the life of a criminal, of our enemies (
has a great disdain for human suffering which leads to the tragic death and outright murder of people whose lives are considered worthless. We can counter this by following the example of JPII whose physical health gradually deteriorated after the gun shot wound that almost took his life. Despite the obvious pain and suffering that came with his sickness, the pope never let it slow him down. Even in his final days, when his health was at its worst, he struggled to be in front of the faithful. In 1984 he also wrote the Apostolic Letter on the Christian Meaning of Human Suffering, 
