8 November 2023
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“But if the watchman see the sword come, and blow not the trumpet, and the people be not warned; if the sword come, and take any person from among them, he is taken away in his iniquity; but his blood will I require at the watchman’s hand.” [Ezekiel 33:6]
“For we wrestle not against flesh and blood, but against principalities, against powers, against the rulers of the darkness of this world, against spiritual wickedness in high places.” [Ephesians 6:12]
Presbyterians Week Headlines
[2] Euthanasia in Canada Makes Up Four Percent of All Deaths
[3] Euthanasia’s Slippery Slope in the Netherlands
[4] Pope Encourages Homosexual Activists
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This afternoon, Mr Justice Robert Peel has ruled that Indi Gregory’s life-support must be removed at the Queen’s Medical Centre in Nottingham or a hospice and not at home, contrary to the wishes of her parents.
Mr Justice Peel has said that life-support will be removed from 2pm tomorrow (Nov 9). The family, supported by the Christian Legal Centre, will appeal.
In the lead up to the ruling, however, NHS bosses threatened to remove life-support today, without family members present, despite the mistake in the draft judgment being raised by the family’s lawyers.
Father, Dean Gregory, was not at the hospital at the time of the threat and said he felt like he was going to have a heart attack when he was informed.
The judgment has been made despite the Italian government dramatically granting Indi citizenship yesterday, and issuing emergency measures today authorising her to be transferred to the Bambino Gesù Paediatric Hospital in Rome for specialist treatment.
Yesterday, (Nov 7) Mr Justice Peel held an urgent online hearing to resolve the dispute over where life-support would be removed.
With domestic legal remedies exhausted and the legal stay expiring, NHS bosses had threatened on Monday to end Indi’s life-support at the hospital.
This would have gone against a Court-approved care plan which said that the decision should be down to the parents.
The Compassionate Care Plan prepared by Nottingham University Hospitals NHS Trust said:
“Parents should be supported to decide where compassionate care would be best delivered. Options include a hospice, the hospital, or home. Each of these options has benefits, and planning would be specific to her location.”
Furthermore in his High Court judgment of 13 October, Mr Justice Peel also stated at paragraph 44 that the implementation of the Order and the Care Plan: “can take place at home or at a hospice, as the parents may elect.”
Indi’s parents had asked for extubating to take place at home, but clinicians had refused.
Mr Justice Peel has made the two previous High Court judgments which blocked Indi’s transfer to Italy for specialist treatment and ruled that it is in her ‘best interests’ to die.
Italy
The latest ruling comes after last week the Bambino Gesù Paediatric Hospital in Rome had agreed to accept Indi for treatment and to carry out the right ventricular outflow tract stent procedure that has been put forward by medical experts. The Italian government has offered to fund the treatment at no cost to the NHS or UK taxpayer.
NHS bosses and UK courts, however, have refused to allow the move or work on a risk-assessment with a specialist Air-Ambulance service. Instead, the UK courts have repeatedly rubber stamped the NHS position on the case and ruled that it is in Indi’s ‘best interests’ to die.
On Monday (6 Nov) the Italian Prime Minister, Giorgia Meloni, granted Indi Italian citizenship and released a statement saying: “They say there isn’t much hope for little Indi, but until the end I will do what I can to defend her life. And to defend her mum and dad’s right to do everything they can for her.”
Today the Italian consul in Manchester, Dr Matteo Corradini, in his capacity as guardianship judge for the 8-month-old, issued an emergency measure recognising the authority of the Italian courts in this case.
The measure issued assumes protection of Indi, and authorises the immediate transfer of Indi to the Bambino Gesù Paediatric Hospital in Rome, which has offered the family specialist treatment at no cost to the NHS or UK taxpayer.
The measure also authorises the adoption of the Italian hospital’s specialist treatment plan and appointed its general manager, Dr Antonio Perno, as Indi’s guardian.
The Italian consul in Manchester has power under Italian law to operate as a judge and can issue emergency measures.
The Court Order has been communicated by the new guardian to the managing director of the Queen’s Medical Centre in Nottingham to facilitate constructive collaboration between the Italian and English health authorities in order to avoid legal questions over conflict of jurisdiction.
It is understood Dr Perno will request to meet with medics at the Queen’s Medical Centre urgently.
It is believed to be the first time that such a measure has been issued in an end-of-life case in the UK.
Repeated threats
Dean Gregory, Indi’s father, said: “I have had to face repeated threats from the hospital trying to intimidate me and speed up Indi’s death, even when there are outstanding court orders in place. There does not appear to be any care or compassion, only cruelty towards us as a family.
“For the hospital and the UK Courts to simply ignore the offer from the Italian government is disgraceful.
“I appeal to the British government to allow Indi to come to Italy before it is too late. As a father I have never asked or begged for anything in my life, but I am now begging the British government to please help prevent our daughter’s life from being taken away.”
Andrea Williams, chief executive of the Christian Legal Centre, said:
“What good reason can there be to detain Indi here against the wishes of her parents when treatment is being offered in Rome.
“The developments lay bare the difference in approach between two nations when the Italian Prime Minister has been public in her support of Indi Gregory and the right of her parents to access treatment in Rome and the British Prime Minister has remained silent.
“We are concerned that there has been no word from the British authorities since Indi was granted Italian citizenship and offered specialist treatment in Rome at no cost to the NHS or UK taxpayer. We ask for an urgent intervention to enable the right things to be done in this case.”
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[2] Euthanasia in Canada Makes Up Four Percent of All Deaths
The following is excerpted from “Canadian government reports,” Fox News, Oct. 26, 2023: “the government of Canada published its fourth annual report on ‘Medical Assistance in Dying’ (MAID) this month, a document revealing that the number of MAID deaths–commonly referred to as euthanasia or assisted suicide–in the country last year was 13,241 accounting for 4.1 percent of all deaths in Canada. It noted that this represented a ‘growth rate of 31.2 percent’ for the procedure compared to the previous year. The report added the total number of euthanasia deaths in Canada since MAID was legalized in 2016 amounts to 44,958 deaths. … this month, Conservative MP Ed Fast told the Toronto Star he worried that the procedures–now that it could potentially be implemented on those suffering mental illness–could contribute to a ‘culture of death’ in the country.” At least 463 of the people who died by assisted suicide in 2022 “were individuals whose natural deaths were not reasonably foreseeable.
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[3] Euthanasia’s Slippery Slope in the Netherlands
The following is excerpted from “the Netherlands is euthanizing children,” The Bridgehead, Apr. 11, 2023: “[In] the Netherlands, which on April 1, 2002, became the first Western country to legalize euthanasia since Nazi Germany, euthanasia deaths continue to rise. According to Dutch News: ‘Euthanasia killings rose by nearly 14.1 percent in 2022, totaling 8,720 deaths. that’s 5.1 percent of all deaths in the Netherlands. Since about half of deaths come from things such as accidents or sudden heart attacks, that means around ten percent of deaths in which a patient was under medical care were from lethal jabs. the same percentage of USA deaths would be about 170,000 annually. (the USA totals about 3,400,000 deaths per year.) 115 mentally ill people were euthanized in the Netherlands (sometimes conjoined with consensual organ harvesting). 379 elderly couples received joint euthanasia. … 288 people with dementia were euthanized. In the Netherlands, killing can be ordered ahead of time by filling out an advance directive.’ the Netherlands and Canada are now on the cutting edge of medical killing, with the Dutch Ministry of Health recommending back in 2019 that the government legalize euthanasia for terminally ill children between the ages of one and 12, with a majority of 72 doctors polled for the report stating that it is morally acceptable to euthanize preteen children who are suffering without prospect of improvement (a deliberately vague framing) if their parents request it.”
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[4] Pope Encourages Homosexual Activists
The following is excerpted from “Pope Francis meets leaders of LGBTQ,” National Catholic Reporter, Oct. 25, 2023: “Pope Francis greeted the leaders of an international association for LGBTQ Catholics at the end of his weekly audience in St. Peter’s Square on Oct. 25. the pontiff spoke with the co-chairs of the Global Network of Rainbow Catholics, a coalition that draws together LGBTQ Catholic organizations from across six continents. Among U.S.-based members are DignityUSA, New Ways Ministry and Fortunate Families. In an interview with National Catholic Reporter shortly after the encounter, co-chair Marianne Duddy-Burke … called the meeting ‘a big day for LGBTQ Catholics.’ ‘I was in tears,’ she said. ‘We have great hope for what he is trying to do to make the church more inclusive.’ … Francis has focused on LGBTQ Catholics in an uncommon way over the past few weeks. On October 17, the pope held an historic, fifty-minute meeting with Loretto Sr. Jeannine Gramick, a lifelong advocate for LGBTQ ministry who had previously been reprimanded by the Vatican and several U.S. bishops for her work. Francis also met on September 29 with Jesuit Fr. James Martin, editor of the LGBTQ Catholic publication Outreach, and indicated in a letter released on October 2 that he is open to allowing Catholic blessing ceremonies for same-sex couples. The pope also recently wrote a note to the executive director of Fortunate Families, a Lexington, Kentucky-based Catholic ministry for the LGBTQ community that is part of the Rainbow Catholics coalition. ‘thank you for your ministry,’ Francis told Stan ‘JR’ Zerkowski.”
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