Baby Joseph in USA!

 Fr. Frank Pavone – A Hero For Our Times

Baby Joseph Freed!!!

Under cover of darkness, Father Frank Pavone, national director of Priests for Life, arrived in Ontario, Canada, Sunday night to rescue Baby Joseph Maraachli from the London Health Sciences Centre. For two weeks, doctors at the hospital in London, Ontario, have been delaying the baby’s transfer to a hospital where efforts to save his life will not be officially labeled “futile.”

Fr. Frank Pavone and Baby Joseph
in St. Louis, MO

“I knew, after this dragged on day after day, that I needed to be here myself to get Baby Joseph to safety,” said Father Pavone. “He needs to be in a hospital that cherishes life over the bottom line. After around-the-clock negotiations, this really became a race against time.” Father Pavone was accompanied by Priests for Life staff, who were there to assure the transfer proceeded smoothly.
Baby Joseph and his father, Moe Maraachli, were flown with Father Pavone to SSM Cardinal Glennon Children’s Medical Center in St. Louis, Mo., on a specially equipped air ambulance provided by Michigan-based Kalitta Charters, and sponsored and paid for by the New York City-based Priests for Life.
“If there is a chance this boy can live, we have to explore every option,” said Father Pavone, who was to arrive back home in New York earlier today after weekend speaking engagements in Cleveland. Instead, he flew to Detroit and then on to Canada, vowing not to leave the country until he had Baby Joseph and his father with him.

“Priests for Life staff toiled through the night for many nights, working in concert with dozens of people to make this possible,” Father Pavone said of the nighttime rescue mission. “Now that we have won the battle against the medical bureaucracy in Canada, the real work of saving Baby Joseph can begin.”

Father Pavone said Baby Joseph’s transfer was accomplished through the efforts of a number of people, including his parents; family spokesman Sam Sansalone; family attorney Claudio Martini; Bobby Schindler of the Terri Schiavo Life & Hope Network, St. Petersburg, Fla.; Dr. Martin McCaffrey, a neonatologist at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, Medical School; the Rev. Pat Mahoney, director of the Christian Defense Coalition in Washington, D.C., and attorney CeCe Heil from the American Center for Law and Justice, also in D.C. Father Frank also thanked the many other Canadian pro-life groups and individuals who have been consistent and heroic in their advocacy for Baby Joseph and for all the vulnerable.
“We are united across national boundaries to continue to work together for a Culture of Life,” Father Pavone said.
SSM Cardinal Glennon Children’s Medical Center opened in 1956 and was named in memory of Cardinal John Glennon, Archbishop of St. Louis from 1903 until his death in 1946. The hospital was a fulfillment of Cardinal Glennon’s vision of a health-care facility open to all children in need of medical care. The hospital is part of SSM Healthcare, which is run by the Franciscan Sisters of Mary. The system has 19 acute-care hospitals in Missouri, Illinois, Wisconsin and Oklahoma.
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Priests For Life – STATEN ISLAND, March 14, 2011 /Christian Newswire/ 

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March 14, 2011

Dear Mary,

I have great news to share with you today.  We have had success in getting
Baby Joseph out of Canada and bringing him to the United States to receive
the health care he needs.

Last night I arrived in Ontario, Canada, to rescue Baby Joseph Maraachli
from the London Health Sciences Centre. For two weeks, doctors at the
hospital in London, Ontario, have been delaying the baby's transfer to a
hospital where efforts to save his life will not be officially labeled
"futile." Read more about this at www.priestsforlife.org.

I flew in a medical jet with Baby Joseph and his father, Moe Maraachli, to
SSM Cardinal Glennon Children's Medical Center in St. Louis, Mo.  He is now
being evaluated by the staff at this wonderful Catholic facility.

I want to thank each and every one of you for your help.  None of this
could have been possible without you.  Your prayers and your emails to
Canadian officials are what helped us to get Baby Joseph out of Canada.

This proves that when we all band together united for such an important
cause we can make a difference.  Let this be incentive for us to continue
to work together to protect the most innocent and to truly bring about a
culture of life.

Please keep praying for Baby Joseph and his family.  Continue praying and
fighting for others like Baby Joseph who are considered by some in the
medical profession to be “worthless” and continue to pray and fight for
an end to the slaughter of the most innocent still in their mothers’
wombs.

Keep watching for Baby Joseph developments on our website at
www.priestsforlife.org and in special emails and alerts that I will send to
you.

Thanks and God Bless,

National Director,
Priests for Life

Priests For Life
PO Box 141172
Staten Island, NY 10314
Phone: 888-PFL-3448
718-980-4400
Fax: 718-980-6515
Email: mail@priestsforlife.org
www.PriestsForLife.org