New High Court battle over a sick baby case - UK

It's well known that Vincent Cardinal Nichols is a liberal modernist.

 

This is hideous. There should be a toxicology report. Might be too late.

 

The same accusation has frequently been leveled at Pope Francis, but he stood up for Alfie.

Perhaps we need to abandon many of these labels-they are political and feature nowhere in the Gospels. There is only Right and Wrong.

 

Julia, on further reflection, I'm thinking you are closer to the truth than me.

David Warren writes a great essay today (he's qualifying his two previous ones which are well worth reading), which corresponds to much of what you are saying:

www.davidwarrenonline.com

I consider Warren the closest we have these days to GK Chesterton. Totally orthodox, and what a writer. He's a journalist/reporter by profession. To his great credit, he is unemployed and unemployable.

Go with God. We must all do so. He must do the rest.

 

With all the soul searching and moral implications discussed on this thread. I wonder if anyone has connected the DOTS with the 8th Amendment vote in Ireland in this month of May.

Do the Irish people realise that if they vote to scrap the 8th Amendment from the Irish Constitution, they are handing over the power of life and death to the Government. The people of Ireland will then be in the same boat as the people of England; where to the horror of everyone internationally it is evident the Government has usurped the Divine Law, and taken power and control over whether people live or die, from conception to tomb. That is how I see it anyway. Anyone else thinking along those lines.

The Irish can stop this train wreck happening in Ireland. Vote to keep the 8th Amendment.

 

Precisely. We have already handed over our children to the state, in the referendum of 2012 that enabled the Constitution (Children) Act. Now we have only to licence the state to murder them (and anyone else they might think of).

 

Alfie Evans should’ve turned 2 today, but UK’s legal and health system killed him
Calvin Freiburger alfie evans https://www.lifesitenews.com/blogs/alfie-evans-would-have-turned-2-today-if-he-hadn

LIVERPOOL, England, May 9, 2018 (LifeSiteNews) – Today would have been the second birthday of Alfie Evans, the baby who died on April 28 after British and European courts refused his parents’ herculean efforts to remove him from the hospital that decided the toddler's death was in his “best interest.”

Supporters in Liverpool are marking the date with a candlelight vigil. Hopefully, it will offer some measure of comfort to Tom Evans and Kate James, along with the knowledge that their sweet little boy is in heaven right now, free of the health issues and human callousness that made his life so short.

Still, this isn’t how children’s birthdays are supposed to go. This should be a day of cheer and laughter, of friends and family gathering over cake, with Tom and Kate opening presents that their son might be too young to appreciate, but would delight him all the same. Instead, Alfie’s birthday is a day of sorrow – because Alder Hey Children’s Hospital and the U.K. court system chose to make it a day of sorrow. Alfie was removed by court order from his ventilator on April 23. He defied medical expectations by beginning to breathe on his own. He continued to breathe on his own for five days. He was given a series of four drug injections shortly before his death.

Nobody can say with certainty whether Alfie could have been cured, or how long he would have lived, but we do know his life wouldn’t have ended when it did if a line of medical and legal authorities hadn’t made the conscious choice that it should end, and if the rest of the British government and even many of the country’s bishops hadn’t decided such a choice was acceptable.

The rationale defies any human comprehension.

The Vatican-owned Bambino Gesù Hospital in Rome had offered to take over Alfie’s care, so it wouldn’t have cost Alder Hey more money. His parents’ attorney confirmed that Alfie would be able to survive air travel, and medical staff stood ready to care for him during the trip, so a transfer wouldn’t have increased the risk (besides, the worst-case scenario, Alfie dying in transit, would’ve been the outcome Alder Hey wanted anyway, with the bonus of a chance to say “we told you so”).

If, for instance, Alder Hey was right and Alfie would’ve naturally died in Rome six months from now, at least his parents would be able to take comfort in the fact that every effort was made to save him. What harm would there have been in giving them that?

The only motive for obstruction that makes any sort of twisted, depraved sense is that, if another hospital got its hands on Alfie and proved his case wasn’t hopeless, it would have undermined the credibility of Alder Hey’s medical judgment – and, by extension, the authority of the U.K.’s entire socialized medical system.

And when total control over the individual and the family rests on the premise that the state knows better than they do, the regime can’t afford to take those kinds of chances. So Alfie Evans had to die.

This was not a good-faith dispute over the proper solution to impossible circumstances. It was the deliberate sacrifice of a child to protect an ideology that’s replaced God in far too many hearts.

If that sounds a bit extreme, then ask yourself why British Prime Minister Theresa May’s take on the case was not to identify a specific point on which Alfie’s defenders were mistaken, but to declare that the judgment of “expert clinicians” was not to be questioned. Ask yourself why advocates of socialized medicine on this side of the pond don’t want to discuss Alfie at all.

Socialized medicine clouded Alfie Evans’ birthday with heartbreak instead of joy, but perhaps some silver linings can be found if it wakes up enough people to how much power they’ve surrendered to their governments.

So, happy birthday, Alfie. We’ll be praying that your example drives the civilized world to ensure that more children live to see theirs. Your short life has inspired millions around the world. Your life has not been in vain and you will be remembered for years to come.

Happy 2nd Birthday Alfie!

 

At least Alder Hey didn't get the opportunity to sell any pieces of Alfie, God love him.