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.

Tuesday, March 8, 2011

A Victory Over Euthanasia

The Supreme Court rejected a petition seeking the mercy killing of Aruna.

The air was thick with elation as one entered ward number four of Mumbai's King Edward Memorial (KEM) Hospital on Monday.

The staff distributed sweets, hugged each other and beamed from ear to ear. One look at the ecstatic KEM nurses and you knew that no one was happier aboutAruna Shanbaug 's 'rebirth' than this spirited bunch here.

After the Supreme Court rejected a petition seeking the mercy killing of Aruna - in a vegetative state for the past 37 years after a brutal sexual assault by a hospital sweeper - nurses reiterated they were happy to take care of her.

From http://indiatoday.intoday.in/site/Story/131773/india/kem-nurses-hail-sc-order-on-aruna-shanbaug.html