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To: Ken H

I’m hard pressed to think of one Muslim hospital in the USA, much less one that’s 100 miles from the nearest ‘maternity hospital.’ And I’m hard pressed to think of anyone who’s expecting a baby who hasn’t made plans about the delivery hospital long in advance of the birth.

I would think it highly unlikely in this day and age for staff at a Catholic hospital to baptize a child, or that a dying child would be in the hospital without his/her parents at his/her bedside, except in the case of a severe emergency. In a case like that, an unidentified dying child might be baptized in a Catholic hospital’s ER. But I don’t think Jewish parents of a sick child who take their child to a Catholic hospital have anything to worry about.

They might be more worried that their child, if they are Orthodox, not get very sick on the Sabbath. My sister lived in an apartment complex with a very large percentage of strictly observant Orthodox Jews. One family let a child die because they would not pick up the phone on the Sabbath.


78 posted on 02/14/2013 7:52:51 PM PST by EDINVA
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To: EDINVA

We were discussing a principle, that being whose wishes should prevail in this matter. We were not discussing how likely it was that a Muslim ceremony would be performed.


81 posted on 02/14/2013 9:42:53 PM PST by Ken H
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