Jill Stanek’s most recent weekend question was that ever-popular pro-choice, knee-jerk reaction to pro-life opposition: “So…Are pro-lifers going to adopt all the unwanted babies?” One of Jill’s followers on Facebook had several great responses. This one was my favorite: Unwanted describes not the child but an attitude of some adults toward the child. The real problem isn’t unwanted children, but … Read More
The Diving Bell and the Butterfly
How appropriate that, after writing this post last week, my latest Netflix movie turned out to be The Diving Bell and the Butterfly about French journalist and former editor-in-chief of Elle magazine, Jean-Dominique Bauby. Talk about a man who “had it all”, only to seemingly “lose everything” when a massive stroke left him paralyzed from head-to-to with locked-in syndrome at … Read More
Pixar Wisdom: The World Needs More “Jackalopes”!
This is one of my absolute favorite Pixar short films: Maybe I’m stretching it a bit, but it kind of reminds me of this passage from Romans (5:3-5): we even boast of our afflictions, knowing that affliction produces endurance, and endurance, proven character, and proven character, hope, and hope does not disappoint, because the love of God has been poured … Read More
Kill the Pain, Not the Patient
13-year-old Lia Mills is one smart cookie! Lia mentions the use of euthanasia in Nazi Germany: see my post Holocaust Lessons Not Learned h/t CMR. See Lia’s award winning speech on abortion. Related: I Will be a Voice, Will You? – featuring more young pro-life voices.
TOB Tuesday: Suffering as a Gift from God
This is an excellent article from Steve Pokorny at Catholic Exchange. A bit of an intro: Throughout human history, since Adam and Eve, there has been the temptation to want to take the powers of life into our own hands. There is the insidious idea that is floated through our fallible minds that if we manipulate things to our liking, … Read More
NRL, AUL Point Out Rationing/Assisted Suicide HCR Concerns
A National Right to Life analysis of the Senate health care reform bill found that: Senior citizens’ ability to use their own money, if they choose, to avoid involuntary denial of medical treatment under Medicare could be severely limited. State commissioners of the new health insurance exchanges created by the bill would be given power to deny people who are … Read More
TN Hospital Will Continue Care for Sick Baby
This is Gabriel Palmer: Praise God that an “ethics panel” decided today to formally agree not to withdraw care from Baby Gabriel who was born prematurely with a genetic abnormality, club foot, and narrow airway. Oh and praise God for the Alliance Defense Fund, too! It’s a sad day when it’s major news that a hospital has decided to continue … Read More
Man Trapped In 23-Year ‘Coma’ Was Conscious
This is more than slightly disturbing, given the number of people who approve of having people with similar diagnoses starved to death: Rom Houben was misdiagnosed as being in a vegetative state after a car crash left him totally paralysed. For the whole time, he was trapped in his own body with no way of letting friends and family know … Read More
Terri’s Day
Today is “Terri’s Day,” the fourth anniversary of the starvation death of Terri Schiavo: Statement from the Schindler family today: Four years ago today Terri Schiavo died. By the order of Judge George W. Greer, Terri died a slow barbaric death by starvation and dehydration over a period of almost two weeks. We have been posting stories of the events … Read More
The Life of the Sufferer Must be Affirmed
In a post that I linked to a few weeks ago, Wesley Smith mentions a man he knew who was dying from ALS who, after years of depression and suicidal thoughts, eventually came out of his despair and learned to embrace his physically challenging life. According to Smith, who was one of his hospice caregivers, this transformation was the result … Read More