When there is equipment,technology to take care for, and since it’s not 50 yrs back and since we are living NOW, I believe this baby should get every possible chance to get a second chance at life. Who are we to deny that? Just cuz we spent a few pennies out of our pocket?

Imagine your own in that situation and imagine you dont have enough money and imagine when people say “Why do we need to spend our money on you?”

It’s easy to throw stones.

Let the poor baby atleast try and get a second chance at life, cuz he’s born in this century, not some 50 yrs back.

And if all of you believe he is in a vegetative state, why do you get a doubt that he may be in pain cuz of the tracheotomy? Do people in vegetative state feel anything?

That’s the collective argument, right? Since he is brain-dead (supposedly shouldnt feel any pain or anything), he shouldnt be given a chance to live.

Many of us want to buy lot of make-up, want to eat-out everyday, want to spend lots of money on ourselves, but when it comes to helping a little baby, suddenly we are all cautious as to how much money is being wasted in this useless cause!

Yes, there are lot of people who need more attention and a good chance at life, maybe more than this little Joseph, maybe why dont we skip one month make-up or eat out only twice a week and donate some of our money to worthy causes, instead of cribbing on “why Baby Joseph should live this life in a vegetative state”.

And what are these parents asking for? I am sure if they can spend more money into research, I am sure some DNA sequencing or some research might even help Baby Joseph get cured of his disease.
But are these parents asking for that? They are just asking for a trach, so that they could take him home. When the baby doesnt feel anything in a vegetative state, what harm does this trach do to him?
Well, experience without compassion wont teach a thing.

We were able to help free an American Christian missionary being held without cause in a Haitian jail – and secure medical treatment in the U.S. for ”Baby Joseph,” whose Canadian doctors were going to take off life support.

Danny Pye, an American missionary who for the past eight years has worked with orphans in Haiti, was mysteriously detained without explanation or formal charges filed against him, following the settlement of a civil property dispute. For the next five months, he remained in a Haitian jail – unaware of any charges against him, separated from his pregnant wife and child.

Danny’s wife, Leann, began working immediately to get her husband released, but she encountered a long series of frustrating obstacles.

Last week, Leann contacted the ACLJ seeking assistance. Our attorneys immediately went to work, meeting with Haiti’s U.S. Ambassador in Washington, D.C., and officials at the State Department. We also coordinated legal efforts with Danny’s attorney in Haiti.

I am pleased to report that Danny has been released; and he returned home to Florida last night, just in time to be with Leann for the birth of their second child, expected any day now. To learn more about Danny’s ordeal, please read Jordan’s latest piece for the Washington Post.

You can also see and hear from Danny himself in a local news report.
I encourage you to watch the video here.

Meanwhile, we also had the joy of helping ”Baby Joseph” – an infant with a serious illness who, until now, has been hospitalized in Canada – receive much-needed medical care at a hospital here in America.

You may have heard about Joseph Maraachli, or ”Baby Joseph” as he has become known, in the news recently. He has a severe degenerative disease and has been in a hospital in Canada. However, his doctors there determined that he should be removed from life support – against his own parents’ wishes. That’s right, the doctors decided, and a Canadian court even agreed with them!

Baby Joseph’s parents retained the ACLJ a couple weeks ago to help them find a hospital in the U.S. that would accept their child for treatment. Good news: little Baby Joseph was airlifted out of Canada Sunday night and is now at the SSM Cardinal Glennon Children’s Medical Center in St. Louis, Missouri, where he is receiving the care he needs.

We assisted in a number of vital areas, including facilitation of the transfer of the child to the Missouri facility, and ensuring no legal impediments in the transfer process.

But this, again, was a team effort. We worked with Priests for Life and others, especially Glennon Medical Center, a leader in children’s health care. Read more about the race to find medical care for Baby Joseph here.

You helped change two lives this week! Thanks to your support, ACLJ attorneys were able to intervene and help rescue both of these individuals from the perilous situations they faced.

Thank you for being a part of everything the ACLJ is doing in the U.S. and around the world!

Sincerely,

Jay Sekulow
ACLJ Chief Counsel

(I received this information on a forum that I frequent.)

Now we must wait and see if the Physicians there will be willing to perform a tracheotomy on Baby Joseph and discharge him home with his parents.

I believe that it is not our health care system ln Canada that is on trial here. I blame Dr. Fraser at LHSC for playing God and for the courts and the law for supporting his ill advised decision.

God Bless the USA….Joanne

After reviewing the records, the Michigan hospital refused. Obviously, universal medicare is not the real issue.

http://www.lfpress.com/news/london/2011/02/23/17384581.html