{"id":11953,"date":"2011-02-23T13:56:26","date_gmt":"2011-02-23T18:56:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/?p=11953"},"modified":"2011-02-23T13:56:26","modified_gmt":"2011-02-23T18:56:26","slug":"hospital-still-threatening-to-remove-baby-josephs-life-support","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/hospital-still-threatening-to-remove-baby-josephs-life-support\/","title":{"rendered":"Hospital still threatening to remove baby Joseph\u2019s life support"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.lifesitenews.com\/news\/baby-josephs-parents-denied-private-visitations\" target=\"_blank\">This<\/a> isn\u2019t getting any better:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>LONDON, Ontario, February 22, 2011 (LifeSiteNews.com) &#8211; While things were looking up for the parents of Joseph Maraachli this past weekend, the picture has now become bleaker. In the latest twist in the case the London hospital where their dying son is being cared for is seeking to remove the parents\u2019 decision-making power after they refused to have him taken off life support. Hospital security is also denying them private visitations.<\/p>\n<p>Alex Schadenberg, executive director of the Euthanasia Prevention Coalition, which has been offering support to the parents, Moe Maraachli and Sana Nader, says they are now only allowed to see their son with a security guard present.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThey fight my family. &#8230; they put security for me.\u00a0 They never give me private to pray with my son,\u201d Moe told Fox News this afternoon.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSecurity watch me and security stay with me,\u201d he added.\u00a0 \u201cWhen I go to hospital I feel I am not in Canada.\u00a0 I feel I\u2019m in jail or they kidnapped my baby.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s ridiculous.\u00a0 It\u2019s not like they could pick the child up and take him home.\u00a0 The baby would die,\u201d said Schadenberg.<\/p>\n<p>Schadenberg said that Moe tried to bring him in to see Joseph on Monday, but security denied him access to the room, and told him to leave the premises.\u00a0 \u201cIt\u2019s become crazy.\u00a0 The hospital\u2019s going overboard and it makes no sense,\u201d he said.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>[flv:https:\/\/anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/videos\/BabyJoseph.flv 480 360]<\/p>\n<p>The longer it goes on, the more it resembles a Kafkaesque nightmare created by unfeeling hospital apparatchiks.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This isn\u2019t getting any better: LONDON, Ontario, February 22, 2011 (LifeSiteNews.com) &#8211; While things were looking up for the parents of Joseph Maraachli this past weekend, the picture has now become bleaker. In the latest twist in the case the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/hospital-still-threatening-to-remove-baby-josephs-life-support\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"iawp_total_views":3,"footnotes":""},"categories":[63],"tags":[454,2068],"class_list":["post-11953","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-canadian-health-care","tag-baby-joseph-maraachli","tag-canadian-health-care"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11953","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11953"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11953\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11953"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11953"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11953"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}