Preemie Fights the UK's Culture of Death
From Baby Charlotte's survival sparks new legal battle:
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Keep on fighting, Baby Charlotte, against the doctors who don't want you to live. May God preserve you from these workers of iniquity.
As for your doctors, "Father, forgive them, for they know not what they do." They are the blind unthinking products of an age that sees no higher good than the presence of pleasure and the absence of pain. They serve as a reminder of these words from C.S. Lewis:
O tempora! O mores!
Yesterday, I met a beautiful and inspiring little four-year-old "miracle baby" who had been born at 29 weeks weighing just a pound-and-a-half (700 g.). She learned to walk just a year ago and has mild cerebral palsy, but she has a fighting spirit and is as bright as could be, unlike a lot of the adult mopers I've known (and been myself).
[link via Seattle Catholic]
From Baby Charlotte's survival sparks new legal battle:
- A PREMATURE baby that the High Court ruled should be left to die by hospital doctors has survived against the odds. So remarkable is the little girl’s progress that lawyers for her parents will this week go to court and ask for the ruling to be lifted.
Charlotte Wyatt, who weighed just 1lb when she was born prematurely, was given only months to live after a hospital won the legal right last autumn not to resuscitate her if she stopped breathing. Doctors secured the ruling, against the wishes of Charlotte’s parents, on the grounds that she was brain-damaged and it was in the baby’s own interests not to be resuscitated since it would prolong her suffering and would be “purposeless”.
Doctors expected that Charlotte, now 15 months old, would succumb to an infection that would prove fatal without emergency intervention. However, she has survived 3½ winter months since the ruling; there is also evidence that her breathing is becoming stronger and she is less dependent on an oxygen supply — an improvement confirmed by hospital sources. The family claims she has some sight and can hear clapping.
[Click on the link to read the rest.]
Keep on fighting, Baby Charlotte, against the doctors who don't want you to live. May God preserve you from these workers of iniquity.
As for your doctors, "Father, forgive them, for they know not what they do." They are the blind unthinking products of an age that sees no higher good than the presence of pleasure and the absence of pain. They serve as a reminder of these words from C.S. Lewis:
- The greatest evil is not done in those sordid dens of evil that Dickens loved to paint but is conceived and ordered (moved, seconded, carried, and minuted) in clear, carpeted, warmed, well-lighted offices, by quiet men with white collars and cut fingernails and smooth-shaven cheeks who do not need to raise their voices.
O tempora! O mores!
Yesterday, I met a beautiful and inspiring little four-year-old "miracle baby" who had been born at 29 weeks weighing just a pound-and-a-half (700 g.). She learned to walk just a year ago and has mild cerebral palsy, but she has a fighting spirit and is as bright as could be, unlike a lot of the adult mopers I've known (and been myself).
[link via Seattle Catholic]
Redeemed by Our Savior, I work out my salvation with fear and trembling in Pohang, South Korea, where I live with my wife, daughter, and son and teach English at a science and technology university. Baptized a Methodist and raised a Missouri Synod Lutheran in Buffalo, NY, I spent six years as a guest of the Anglican Communion before being received by the Grace of God into the One Holy Catholic and Apostolic Church on the Feast of Saint Andrew, my patron, anno domini 2002.
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