Although still in a very critical condition, Charlotte’s oxygen is down now to 53% from 65% two days ago. Hannah at Charlotte’s blog asks ‘isn’t this an upward trend’?
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Charlotte Wyatt is doing a little better today. The Scotsman writes, “The two-year-old remained in a “serious but stable” condition, said a spokesman at the hospital where she is being treated.” Hannah over at SaveCharlotte.com has encouraging update: the amount of oxygen Charlotte needs is now only 60% from 65% earlier. She has a way to go, but she’s definitely a fighter.
For those of you who want to add a banner on your website supporting Charlotte Wyatt, I’ve added one below. A friend here in America also made a very beautiful poster you can download and print.
Who is this English judge that reinstated the order allowing the doctors to withhold artificial respiration? Although we’ve heard much about Charlotte’s plight, we’ve heard little about the judge who assigned her to that fate.
According to an article from 2004 in the Times Online, Justice Mark Hedley is a 58 year old father of four who was only recently appointed as the 98th judge to the High Court of Justice of England and Wales:
He became a recorder in 1988 and a judge on the Northern circuit in 1992, a position he held for nine years before moving to the High Court, where he is a judge in the Family Division.
Away from court he enjoys cricket and railways.
Not only is he a decent family man, he’s reported to be a devout Anglican. Furthermore,
[He] is a reader at St Peter’s, Everton, a thriving evangelical church in Liverpool in an area designated as an urban priority by the Church of England. He is also Chancellor of the Diocese of Liverpool and chair of Shrewsbury House, a youth centre set up by Shrewsbury School a century ago to help inner-city youths. As a reader, he takes part in pastoral and educational work, evangelism and other forms of lay leadership. He can leads worship, including Morning and Evening Prayer, and take Communion to the sick and housebound.
In December last year the judge, who became a High Court judge three years ago, was awarded an honorary degree by the University of Liverpool for his contributions to family and child law and his local community in Liverpool.
Justice Hedley is also the president of the The Lawyers’ Christian Fellowship. Their e-mail address is: admin@lawcf.org. But something seems not quite right. Although he’s praised as a champion of children’s rights by the Higher Education & Research Opportunities in the United Kingdom (HERO) website, his idea of compassion is to let Charlotte die “‘peacefully in the arms of those who love her most”.
Over at SaveCharlotte.com, Hannah says there have been some hopeful developements:
Charlotte is doing ever so slightly better and is stable, though her situation remains doubtful and every moment is a new miracle. She is in 65 % oxygen now, and Darren is staying by her side.
Let us continue to pray
Hannah at SaveCharlotte.com has asked for all of our prayers. It seems Charlotte Wyatt’s health has worsened, and the judge has ordered the hospital to let her die.
Related articles:
Scotsman, Legal Row Charlotte Deteriorating
BBC, New Ruling as Charlotte Worsens
The Sun, Charlotte order renewed
Every time I stop by Watching America, I’m astonished by the breadth of articles from foreign news services they’ve translated. Besides the regular news and opinion articles translated from European languages, they also have articles translated from Arabic and Chinese.
A couple months ago Watching America did a redesign and added an archive to make the site more user-friendly. I would suggest adding the page to your list of bookmarks and stopping by regularly. Also, since the Watching America staff unaffiliated with any organization or corporation, consider donating to help with the costs.
Paul Weyrich deals with the recent rumour that there might be another Supreme Court vacancy this summer. He writes:
. . .As one long-time Senate staffer said to me, “If you think what the outside groups did in the Alito nomination was tough, it was like a kindergarten class compared to what is next.”
Conservatives likewise would require unprecedented resources to hold Republican Senators in line and to assure the votes were Frist to change the rules in the middle of the session.
If the rumor turns out to be true, then hope and pray the vacancy comes at the end of June. The President and his party might be good for one more nomination and confirmation. If, as many now believe, the Democrats take over the Senate this November, or even if Republicans are reduced to a 51-49 majority, the chance of getting one more good, solid nominee such as the two the President already has given us almost certainly is down the drain.
(Courtesy of ConfirmThem.)
Jay Cost from over at the Horse Race Blog has a intriguing two part series on the House elections this fall. The first part is here and the second part here. He’s now a columnist for Real Clear Politics in between working on his dissertation for a doctorate in political science at the University of Chicago. What is his prediction for this November?
Thus, we should consider an 11-seat swing in November as the maximum Democratic gain. Factoring in the incumbency pushes my estimate to less than 10. Factoring in the tight alignment of the electorate pushes my estimate to a Democratic gain of about 8 seats. Assuming that (a) Bush’s popularity does not drop off, (b) the economy does not stagnate and (c) Republicans do not have to defend more net open seats, I predict that the 110th Congress will have 224 Republicans and 211 Democrats.
Maybe I’m too optimistic. I’m still hoping we can gain some seats, like we did in 2002 and 2004.
I recently came across this useful source of creation, intelligent design and evolution news, the Creation-Evolution Headlines . Besides offering summeries of the latest news, they also have fun feature — Scientist of the Month. This month it is William Harvey.
I also stumbled across a bunch of great audio and videos on ID. They can be found here at the Teleological Blog. The Teleological blog also linked to this video project which has some fascinating videos online, including Icons of Evolution, Mystery of Life’s Origin, Privileged Planet and many different debates.
To read up on the Evolutionist’s take on this debate, there is of course The Panda’s Thumb and Talk.Origins
A local evolutionist has recently started his own blog with articles and commentary and it already looks interesting. The blogger, Allen McNeil, writes in a recent post:
. . .The real danger is that, in attempting to show a “unified front,” [Darwinian] scientists will be tempted to suppress their own disagreements with current orthodoxy. Any inhibition on the free expression of doubts and disagreements in the scientific community would be harmful to science, in a way that “intelligent design theory” generally is not.
Hello all! Coyote asked me to join Sounding the Trumpet, especially as he’s been away a lot. I’ve been an avid reader of this blog since soon after it started. I hope to continue to offer the same kind of commentary and reporting that you’ve all been expecting.
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