Anyone who knows me or reads my articles, also knows that I am not a Catholic. But I must say that for many years I have had much respect for the Catholics in the Pro-Life movement. The movement is often led by Catholic institutions. I still maintain that Catholicism is not a denomination of true Christianity. We are saved by Grace through faith:
“For by grace you have been saved through faith, and that not of yourselves; it isthe gift of God, not of works, lest anyone should boast” (Ephesians 2:8-9).
Catholicism teaches that we must work our way to heaven. We know that is impossible. We trust the Word of God as Absolute Truth.
“Hospital for Sick Kids”
Hospital for “Sick Kids” in Toronto is systematically euthanizing children under 18 years old – many times without the consent of parents. The parents are told after the child is deceased.
And it is not just physically sick children who are being put to death. Children with psychological disturbances are candidates for euthanasia.
Brethren, should we be surprised at this? I am sickened – yes – but not surprised.
According to the Left, abortion is now something of which to shout and celebrate. I’m sure my readers are aware that the whole Brett Kavanaugh debacle is over keeping Roe Vs. Wade and abortion on demand legal.
How sick.
Because this world is filled with God-haters, these people have absolutely no regard for human life. I wonder though if one of these crazed Liberals was told that they were going to be euthanized for some reason – how would they react then? I highly doubt that they would willingly outstretch their arm for the toxic needle.
From catholicregister.org
Assisted suicide plans for children unveiled at Toronto’s Sick Kids hospital
TORONTO – In a prestigious medical journal, doctors from Toronto’s Hospital for Sick Children have laid out policies and procedures for administering medically assisted death to children, including scenarios where the parents would not be informed until after the child dies.
he article appears just three months before the Canadian Council of Academies is due to report to Parliament on the medical consensus about extending voluntary euthanasia in circumstances currently forbidden by law. The Canadian Council of Academies is specifically looking at extending so-called assisted dying to patients under 18, psychiatric patients and patients who have expressed a preference for euthanasia before they were rendered incapable by Alzheimer’s or some other disease.
The Sept. 21 paper written by Sick Kids doctors, administrators and ethicists was published in the British Medical Journal’s J Med Ethics and backed by the University of Toronto’s Joint Centre for Bioethics.
In a flowchart that outlines how a medically induced death would occur at Sick Kids, authors Carey DeMichelis, Randi Zlotnik Shaul and Adam Rapoport do not mention conversation with family or parents about how the child dies until after the death occurs in the “reflection period.”
Patient confidentiality governs the decision about whether or not to include parents in a decision about an assisted death, the authors said. If capable minors under the age of 18 stipulate they don’t want their parents involved, doctors and nurses must respect the patients’ wishes.
“Usually, the family is intimately involved in this (end-of-life) decision-making process,” they write. “If, however, a capable patient explicitly indicates that they do not want their family members involved in their decision-making, although health care providers may encourage the patient to reconsider and involve their family, ultimately the wishes of capable patients with respect to confidentiality must be respected.”
The proposed policy for Sick Kids argues that there is no meaningful ethical distinction between a patient choosing to refuse burdensome treatment and accepting an inevitable death versus patients who choose to die by chemical injection before the disease brings on death. Legally, Ontario does not require parents to be involved in a capable minor’s decision to refuse further treatment, therefore there is no legal reason to require parent involvement in an assisted death, according to the Sick Kids policy.
Bioethicist Bridget Campion said she is neither surprised nor shocked by the article.
“The fact is medical assistance in dying is now legal. And it’s legal in many places around the world,” said the researcher, lecturer and writer with the Canadian Catholic Bioethics Institute. “Now that it is legal, many practitioners are saying, ‘How do we do this?’ I’m not surprised at all.”
Opponents of assisted suicide are concentrating their efforts on a fight for conscience protections, she said, both for individual clinicians and for religious health care institutions.
“It’s a tough thing to know what to do next under the circumstances. This is now legal,” she said. “In my opinion, if we are committed to building a culture of life, forget the legislation. That ship has sailed. There are some things that we absolutely must make sure stay in place – that there can be Catholic health care, that there can be conscientious objection. But, to me, the biggest thing is, ‘OK, how do we build a culture of life? How do we build a culture of care?’ If we can do that and make it so that people don’t want medical assistance in dying, then we will have achieved something.”
Like other Catholic bioethicists, Campion finds the assisted suicide argument based on patient rights and autonomy simplistic and overly narrow. But the Sick Kids policy seems to take no account of collective rights or values, as it concentrates on patient autonomy.
“These days, what I’m thinking about is that we tend to think of medicine as a highly private thing – between the patient and the clinician,” she said.
“We have to be thinking about communities of health as well, communities of wellness.” source
Brethren, this is so satanically evil; I can hardly take it in. The proponents of the killing of these children will one day stand before our Holy God and have to give an account of these horrific deeds.
Pray for the children in this hospital!
Shalom b’Yeshua
MARANATHA