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“We will be here for you,” said Han Huimin to his paralyzed ex girlfriend, Wu Yueying. “We will take care of you as long as we are alive.” Han’s wife, Xu Minfang, also standing by Wu’s sick bed, nodded reassuringly at Wu.
This is the 34th year since Wu was paralyzed after a traffic accident back in 1974. At that time, Wu was Han’s first girlfriend. Han attended to her since then, and refused to consider another girlfriend. He was determined to take care of Wu all his life, even at the cost of his own marriage.
Three years later Han finally agreed to find a girlfriend, only at the earnest pleads of Wu’s parents. But Han made it clear that his future wife must promise to help him take care of Wu. Soon he met Xu Minfang, who, deeply moved by his dedication, later became his wife in 1980 and shared his responsibilities for Wu.
On November 8, Han, now 55, went to the drugstore for Wu’s medicine while his wife chatted with Wu at her bedside. For the past 34 years, the couple has worked together like this to take care of Wu.
Xu has been a very attentive nurse to Wu. She carefully keeps Wu warm because coughs and having mucous may become dangerous for paralyzed patients.
The couple also prepared two sets of televisions in Wu’s bedroom so that she is able to watch TV whichever side she turns her head. Han also had Wu’s bed specially made for her convenience. Their meticulous care has been the only reason Wu survived all those years.
The past 34 have tied Han and Wu’s families closely together. Now they are like one family, and are always there for each other."
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WASHINGTON, November 19, 2008 (LifeSiteNews.com) - The possible signing of the Freedom of Choice Act (FOCA) by President-Elect Barack Obama would be "the equivalent of a war" an unnamed senior Vatican official recently told TIME magazine.
The startling comments make the second time this week that a Vatican official has forthrightly and in the strongest language condemned Obama's extreme policies on abortion. Speaking at the Catholic University of America a few days ago, Vatican Cardinal James Stafford labeled Obama's anti-life policies as "aggressive, disruptive, and apocalyptic," also noting that, "On November 4, 2008, America suffered a cultural earthquake" (see coverage: http://www.lifesitenews.com/ldn/2008/nov/08111703.html).
With Catholic, but outspokenly pro-abortion individuals occupying two prominent positions (Joseph Biden as vice president and Tom Daschle as Health and Human Services Secretary) the specter of public excommunication or denial of communion for prominent members of the Obama Administration has arisen.
The focus of the Vatican’s concern, FOCA, is a bill that would do away with state laws on abortion, including laws mandating parental involvement, or banning partial birth abortion. FOCA would also compel taxpayer funding of abortions, and, of greatest concern to Bishops, would force faith-based hospitals and healthcare facilities to perform abortions.
Obama has in the past said that he would make signing FOCA one of the highest priorities of his presidency.
Last week at the meeting of US Bishops in Baltimore, Cybercast News Service asked Chicago Cardinal Francis George, the current president of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops, if voting for FOCA would bring a penalty of automatic excommunication for Catholic politicians. The Cardinal did not rule it out...