Posted on 03/07/2011 9:37:43 AM PST by wagglebee
As I'm sure you know, the now-famous case of Baby Joseph in Canada is becoming critical. He could die in the next couple of weeks if his breathing tube is removed as the hospital and the government intend.
Baby Joseph is only 13 months old and often has difficulty breathing on his own. He needs a procedure called a tracheostomy in order to go home and live under his parents' care. However, the Canadian health care system is refusing to let the family take care of their son -- even though hospitals in the United States have privately said that they would take Joseph in and give him the tracheostomy he needs to survive. U.S. doctors and hospitals who are now familiar with the case are appalled that Baby Joseph hadn't received the tracheostomy 3 or 4 months ago rather than make the baby suffer all this time.
Baby Joseph's parents are pleading with the world for a hospital with the courage to step forward and accept their son for evaluation and treatment. Priests For Life has even agreed to supply medical air transport to and from the facilities. We will support the cost of the hospitalization and after-care including nursing. Home ventilators have also been donated to maintain Baby Joseph if needed.
There are U.S. physicians in Michigan willing to oversee Baby Joseph's outpatient care and assist in weaning him off the home ventilator should it be necessary.
We have yet to find one facility that said it would not perform the tracheostomy on Baby Joseph.
The real problem is that health care providers in the U.S. need Baby Joseph's medical records -- but the Canadian authorities are refusing to release them.
Therefore, I need your help to continue to contact the Canadian authorities so that a proper and humane solution to this problem can be found. We have recently discovered that Canadian law requires the hospital to release these records to Baby Joseph's parents upon request. And to date, they have refused.
This is what is preventing hospitals in the United States from being able to accept Baby Joseph. We need those medical records! And we need them now!
Therefore, I urge you to click here and send an email to the Canadian officials who oversee the London, Ontario hospital requesting that the medical records be released immediately.
We are continuing our search for a hospital in the United States to take Baby Joseph, and they won't do that without the records.
So please send an email to the Canadian authorities -- and at the same time say a strong prayer for Baby Joseph and his parents. Time is running out, so please act now.
Again all you need to do is click on this link and action can be taken in this life-or-death case.
And while you're on your computer, please forward this urgent email to everyone you know, and we may have a strong chance of saving Baby Joseph from a cruel death.
Fr. Frank Pavone
Nationail Director
P.S. There are currently many false reports and rumors in the media that Baby Joseph is in a persistent vegetative state. He's not. He's only 13 months old, and simply isn't getting the care he needs. Any baby would suffer if not given proper care. So please don't listen to the same kind of lies and distortions that caused Terri Schiavo's untimely death.
This is why it so important that the medical records are released so the truth can come out.
You continue to misrepresent this case despite numerous attempts to educate you to the facts. Are you also pro-abortion?
It’s the death part they love.
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Exactly right.
I don’t misrepresent the case. Fact: baby Joseph is Canadian and as such and with the decisions of the Ontario board he would never be covered in the US.
Fact, once he is in a US hospital the hospital has a duty to provide all care, even unreasonable one according to the doctors.
Fact his parents do not have health insurance in the US.
They were told the baby can go home. If the parents have a ventilator at home, I don’t see the need for a tracheotomy that all doctors in the case have said would be painful and wouldn’t improve his chances at all.
Are you pro-abortion?
Were you able to understand wagglebee's posts regarding the fact that this baby's family want nothing but a tracheostomy, which would be of little cost, and that cost would not be incurred by American taxpayers?
The financial aspects are very important. After all, somebody will have to pay for all this care and it won’t be the parents. And I take the words of all the doctors who have said that the tracheotomy would be risky.
I would say you don’t care about the baby at all but you care bout your beliefs. Your right. My right to say why I don’t agree with you.
Heaven help you.
What is wrong with you? What is missing from your soul? This baby isn’t costing you anything. What is your excuse for fighting against humane treatment for him? Drop the pretense that it has something to do with money. Why do you want him and his family to suffer as much as possible?
You treasure money over life. Welcome to liberal land. This is a conservative pro-life forum. Get lost?
After all, somebody will have to pay for all this care and it won’t be the parents.
His sister didn't cost anyone anything. She had a trache until she died from the same thing. You worry more about other peoples money than precious life. Nobody's asking you for money.
The baby won’t live without a trache and they don’t want him on a ventilator. If the doctors are right, where’s his records? Hm?
Is money really the issue for Michel12? I wonder.
You represent your agenda just fine; however, it has NOTHING to do with the case.
Fact: baby Joseph is Canadian and as such and with the decisions of the Ontario board he would never be covered in the US.
A fact made irrelevant because his care will be paid for privately.
Fact, once he is in a US hospital the hospital has a duty to provide all care, even unreasonable one according to the doctors.
Actually, this isn't even the truth; however, it is still irrelevant because all they want is a tracheotomy.
Fact his parents do not have health insurance in the US.
I'm starting to suspect that you either have remedial intelligence or are being deliberately obtuse.
A person DOES NOT NEED INSURANCE if they plan on paying for it themselves.
Father Pavone has already lined up a private jet to transport Baby Joseph and his parents, do you really believe that he can't come up with the money for a tracheotomy? A tracheotomy costs less than $5000.00.
What is humane treatment? A tracheotomy certainly isn’t, especially if there is no hope of it ever being reversed. Do you think that pneumonia (that baby Joseph could get from this tracheotomy) is better?
I don’t want him to suffer, but his illness has decreed otherwise. I am sorry for his family, but it doesn’t mean that I cannot look rationally at the situation.
In a time of enormous budget deficits (Ontario has one by the way) you cannot ignore the financial aspects. As soon as the care isn’t paid for by the family, then it is either paid for by the taxpayer or by other patients who will have less resources at their disposal for their own care or the care of their children. Somebody mentions that the care of his sister was for more than a million dollars when she was at home before she died. Do you think it is fair for the Canadian taxpayer to pick up the tab? This will mean worse care for others, maybe less money for schools etc. etc.
There is not enough money for all the care in the world. It is sad, but it is a truth which must be taken into consideration.
Prayers for Baby Joseph!
God is life.
And God is definitely PRO-LIFE!
Prayers for Baby Joseph!
God is life.
And God is definitely PRO-LIFE!
Who knows. Many have bought the lies of the culture of death.
You can when the cost doesn't involve public funds. The fact is that hospitals like it when people pay for care without insurance, they make more.
As soon as the care isn’t paid for by the family, then it is either paid for by the taxpayer or by other patients who will have less resources at their disposal for their own care or the care of their children.
So, you believe that the head of a prominent pro-life group with a private jet at his disposal can't pay for a tracheotomy.
Somebody mentions that the care of his sister was for more than a million dollars when she was at home before she died.
Actually, that erroneous figure came from you or someone like you.
Do you think it is fair for the Canadian taxpayer to pick up the tab?
The Canadians aren't being asked to pay for this.
There is not enough money for all the care in the world.
But there is enough for Baby Joseph.
From everything I have read, the family simply wants to take him home to die with dignity in his home surrounded by those who love him. Very sad that so many wish to deny them some quality time together.
You are making assumptions based on NOTHING. They've been through this before. They knew then that anything but a trache was futile.
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