Author: Jimmy Akin
Jimmy was born in Texas, grew up nominally Protestant, but at age 20 experienced a profound conversion to Christ. Planning on becoming a Protestant seminary professor, he started an intensive study of the Bible. But the more he immersed himself in Scripture the more he found to support the Catholic faith, and in 1992 he entered the Catholic Church. His conversion story, "A Triumph and a Tragedy," is published in Surprised by Truth. Besides being an author, Jimmy is the Senior Apologist at Catholic Answers, a contributing editor to Catholic Answers Magazine, and a weekly guest on "Catholic Answers Live." View all posts by Jimmy Akin
Move along, nothing to see here. Everyone knows it would have been better for her and her family to mercifully let her starve to death years ago.
The timing of this miracle couldn’t have been more perfect:
http://www.terrisfight.org/press/release2-4-05.html
Thanks be to God!
…amazing the difference when there isn’t an estranged husband in the background plotting their demise…
this is a day for rejoicing indeed!
God Bless.
I think Sarah Scantlin looks BEAUTIFUL. Just looking at her picture makes me wish I knew her and could give her a huge hug and kiss.
Today, at church our priest asked for a collection for a couple whose baby will be coming home by ambulance today. The baby boy has severe retardation, blind,and on a ventilator. The baby will never be able to swallow on his own. When I hugged Lisa after church it was comforting to see her so happy her baby boy is coming home. When I send her my card of congratulations I will remind her that in her presence every day she is living with a saint. I hope that will make her journey taking care of her saintly child even more fruitful.
JO
Jimmy, I don’t mean to be technical to the point of seeming cold to the obvious joy in this story, but I wanted to bring up a point for clarification.
When you say, “One more reason not to pull the plug,” it implies that this woman was on some sort of mechanical life support for all these years. Unless I am missing something, this was not the case here.
Perhaps this is another chance for us to point to the difference between a legitimate refusal of extreme medical intervention and denial of a basic life sustaining care (nutrition). My Grandfather is right now in the hospital after a falland head injury and may not recover. Although he is on a respirator right now and they are giving him fluids and medicines intraveneously, they have given instructions not to rescuscitate him by “shock” or even chest compressions should his heart fail. My family is not Catholic and I have no say in the matter of my Grandfather’s care anyways, but I have a question on this subject. As I said, I know that there is a legitimate refusal of certain types of procedures. Does this legitimacy extend, generally speaking, to refusal of these resuscitative procedures I mentioned?
Thanks, Josh