Canada: Family fights to bring baby home to die

Secular Pro Life follows this sad story of a Canadian infant,  Joseph, declared to be in a  persistent vegetative state .  The dispute is where he will die since all agree the condition is terminal. The family is requesting a tracheotomy be performed so he can be taken home for his final days like his sister  who had a similar condition. The hospital is resisting stating they will just remove life support. The judge sided with  the hospital and the date was set for a day in Canada  that is celebrated as "Family Day."  

An update, probably due to negative publicity states that baby may be transferred  to a hospital in Michigan. Since Canada has universal health care  the term "death panels"  comes  to mind  when reading this account.

  Do doctors’ rights now trump parental rights?” asked Jim Hughes, national president of Campaign Life Coalition.  “And what about the dignity of the child to die in the loving arms of his parents at home?

In a further update, the transfer to a MI hospital is not certain.The family is also being aided in its fight by Alex Schadenberg, president of the Euthanisia Prevention Coalition, who said the doctors and the courts "have gone too far" in the case.

"This family wasn't asking for extraordinary medical treatment . There were willing to care for the baby at home and, to me, this is a reasonable request. To me, this is a question of who has the right to decide and I'm concerned the decisions that have been made set a precedence in place that the doctors now have more powers than they did in the past," he said. "The balance of power has shifted too far. The courts have gone beyond where they belong.
"This was not an extraordinary request (to bring the baby home.)"