DEACON FOR LIFE

Were there to be no support in the whole history of ethical and moral thought, were there no acknowledged confirmation from medical science, were the history of legal opinion to the contrary, we would still have to conclude on the basis of God's Holy Word that the unborn child is a person in the sight of God. He is protected by the sanctity of life graciously given to each individual by the Creator, Who alone places His image upon man and grants them any right to life which they have.

Thursday, August 14, 2008

FROM ABC NEWS:

Playing God again . . .

When Does An Infant's Life End?

Doctors Debate When Organs Can Be Donated

By JOSEPH BROWNSTEIN
ABC News Medical Unit
Aug. 14, 2008

Doctors are locked in debate over a new approach to infant heart transplants, in which surgeons remove the organs of babies before they are declared brain dead.

A heart transplant protocol in infants is an issue of contention for many doctors and ethicists.

Read this article here: http://abcnews.go.com/Health/story?id=5575170&page=1