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No, it doesn’t. I’m sorry.
The lawyer was removed? By whom?
Who removed him? I know that the ACLJ ( a Christian law center) has become engaged in the fight for him .
“Fr. Frank Pavone, national director of the U.S.-based Priests for Life, has pledged to pay for Joseph to be moved to a hospital in the U.S.”
No way is a hospital in the US going to accept this patient. Home care would cost in the hundred of thousands of dollars if this baby managed to live another 6 months. Is this Father Pavone going to pay for that care? Doubt it.
He wants to dump this on the already fragile health care system with a non American family taking away US taxpayer dollars.
You can put diagrams on how simple a trach procedure is. However, the equipment needed and the support services required for home care is immense.
Hope is indelibly engraved in the human heart because God our Father is life, and for eternal life and beatitude we are made.
Every child born is a sign of trust in God and man and a confirmation, at least implicit, of the hope in a future open to God’s eternity that is nourished by men and women. God has responded to this human hope, concealing Himself in time as a tiny human being.
Saint Augustine wrote: “We might have thought that your Word was far distant from union with man, if this Word had not become flesh and dwelt among us” (Conf. X, 43, 69, cited in Spe Salvi, n. 29).
Thus, let us allow ourselves to be guided by the One who in her heart and in her womb bore the Incarnate Word.
O Mary, Virgin of expectation and Mother of hope, revive the spirit of Advent in your entire Church, so that all humanity may start out anew on the journey towards Bethlehem, from which it came, and that the Sun that dawns upon us from on high will come once again to visit us (cf. Lk 1: 78), Christ our God. Amen.
Pope Benedict XVI
From his homily for the first vespers
of the first Sunday of Advent,
December 1, 2007 - St. Peter’s Basilica
The lawyer’s removal might just be a strategic move by the family, with the lawyer. The hospital might not be able to ‘move’ against the family unless they are represented by competent counsel. So, they take another month or so to line up a replacement lawyer, extending Baby Joseph’s life, while other options, i.e., to move him out of the country, are explored and gotten into a position to act upon. I hope that’s what’s going on.