Apologies for my inexcusable absence, but I've been busy being angry on the internet. This also makes me angry, via Apples and Roses.

In short, a hard-working Polish man had a heart attack, sustained bad brain damage, and fell into a coma. Although he is by no means brain dead, his wife agreed with the hospital to cease life-sustaining treatment. As he could breathe on his own by December 15, that meant ceasing such basic care as clinically assisted nutrition and hydration until he was good and dead. So much for the corporal works of mercy.

However, the man's birth family, including his mother, objected to his being starved and dehydrated to death, and his aged widowed mother went through two-thirds of her life savings to stop this. Eventually the devoutly Catholic family turned to a British Evangelical Christian legal charity called Christian Legal Centre, the same people who fought for the life of Catholic Alfie Evans.

I've seen this repetedly in the hospital - simple things like hydration and food are now considered invasive medical care to be withdrawn when people are judged not worthy of life. We are living in a dark time and it is getting darker. Read there rest of the article and do what you can to fight it.

Labels: catholic, prolife