>>Father Pavone is correct in saying “Baby Joseph is all of us.”Unless we want to hand over to doctors and the government the right to decide when and how we die, we simply have to express our outrage when they attempt it.<<
And right there you nailed it. This is a political issue. It is not about Joseph. It is about the state.
Of course, it is about BOTH. It has to be, once the state is in the picture. The parents were found to be in contempt of court for not "consenting" to have the respirator removed. Hello? The parents were not allowed to pay for the tracheotomy themselves to bypass the "state's" declaration of only palliative care, as IT deemed apprpriate. Hello? The hospital refused to release the medical records, even at the PARENTS" request. Hello? And on and on. Who is playing God here? It's "political" only because one has to fight fire with ... FIRE. Hello?