In March I posted about Joseph, a Canadian baby with a rare and fatal neurological disorder. A Canadian medical board (who refused to visit Joseph in person) and a Canadian judge ordered him removed from life support and just left to die in the hospital instead of agreeing to his parents' request for the placement of a trachea so that he could come home and be with his family before dying.
Frank Pavone, of Catholic Priests for Life, helped the family get a transfer to a hospital in the United States where they were able to successfully do the tracheostomy. The family then got several more months together before
little Joseph's death yesterday afternoon.
So thankful for the extra time his family had with him, and so thankful for his parents' exemplary perseverance and love.
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ReplyDeleteRespectfully, it isn't the universal health care that is the problem, Amy, it is activist judges and bureaucracy without compassion. There are similar activist judges and less than compassionate bureaucracies under private health care too. It is the society that has become sick, not necessarily the particular system that delivers health care. That decision would have never happened several decades earlier when Tommy Douglas set up universal health care because no matter one's opinion on how health should be paid for and delivered, the whole outlook of individuals and those in the bureaucracy and judges on the sanctity of life was different than it is now.
ReplyDeleteI'm thankful baby Joseph's family were able to get extra time with him.
K.W. in Canada