{"id":7855,"date":"2019-09-30T04:48:03","date_gmt":"2019-09-30T04:48:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/churchedge.com\/illustrations\/index.php\/2019\/09\/30\/why-fix-the-heart-value\/"},"modified":"2019-09-30T04:48:03","modified_gmt":"2019-09-30T04:48:03","slug":"why-fix-the-heart-value","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.churchedge.com\/illustrations\/why-fix-the-heart-value\/","title":{"rendered":"Why Fix the Heart Value?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Robert Destro works for the Catholic League for Religious Civil Rights.  His job now focuses almost full-time on cases involving treatment given to the disabled.<\/p>\n<p>One in particular jolted his conscience.  A young California boy with Down syndrome needed a heart operation.  But the boy&#8217;s father wanted to withhold treatment.  Why fix the heart value? the father asked.  The boy was retarded.<\/p>\n<p>Destro was outraged.  \u201cAre we going to stand by and watch this child die of medical neglect simply because he&#8217;s retarded?\u201d he asked.<\/p>\n<p>Unbelievably, the state of California sided with the boy&#8217;s father.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Robert Destro works for the Catholic League for Religious Civil Rights. His job now focuses almost full-time on cases involving treatment given to the disabled. One in particular jolted his conscience. A young California boy with Down syndrome needed a heart operation. But the boy&#8217;s father wanted to withhold treatment. Why fix the heart value? [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[658,660,460,661,659,30],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.churchedge.com\/illustrations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7855"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.churchedge.com\/illustrations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.churchedge.com\/illustrations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.churchedge.com\/illustrations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.churchedge.com\/illustrations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7855"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.churchedge.com\/illustrations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7855\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.churchedge.com\/illustrations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7855"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.churchedge.com\/illustrations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7855"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.churchedge.com\/illustrations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7855"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}