Making A Decision Re: Baby Julian

The following is a copy of a response I made to this post in a message forum:

I believe that God should be the one Who will make the final decision re: Julian. Otherwords, everything should be done for him that can be done just so long as he has brain activity.

As for flesh-and-blood people...when it comes to making decisions about Julian's future, there should be only one who decides whether or not he lives or dies: Julian.

Because he's so little and helpless--unable to provide for himself in the way of medical life-support and basic needs--somebody needs to do this for him, and those into whose care he has been trusted are the ones who should be responsible.

He can leave this realm unassisted--which means that his death (if it occurs) shouldn't be the result of either depriving him of life-support or taking some active role (e.g. lethal injection, depriving of basic needs such as nourishment and oxygen) in ending his life.

He's in a lot of discomfort now--but so are women who stay awake during labor; people withdrawing from drugs; and, in some cases, people in the process of being treated for a disease or other condition.

When you see the discomfort of this little guy, think of it as something on the order of labor pains--pain with a purpose!

Picture him past his pain, because--in one way or another--his pain will eventually become a thing of the past! I believe that, since he's fighting so hard, the future holds his being in this realm for a very long time.

Visualize him doing something such as hugging you, saying his first word, getting his first tooth, etc. and keep that vision going in your mind!

One final note: Have you read The Russell Report yet?
Hope you will!!!

He/She Didn't Qualify

I'm now managing the online store for Invisible Youth and am creating products to sell there. Among the products are t-shirts that bear this original poem:

He Didn't Qualify

Society remained comfortable
with putting a child who needed major surgery
on his emotional well-being
into one program after another
that had only band-aids to offer.
There were places he could have gone
to get the help he needed,
but he didn't qualify.
He was always either
too bright or too slow;
too young or too old;
too financially well-off
or not financially well-off enough;
too this or too that.
He grew to be a man,
and his problems grew worse--
MUCH WORSE!
There was a cell on death-row
and an execution date--
He qualified.

Ainsley Jo Phillips

along with a version I wrote with a female as the main character instead of a male:

She Didn't Qualify

Society remained comfortable
with putting a child who needed major surgery
on her emotional well-being
into one program after another
that had only band-aids to offer.
There were places she could have gone
to get the help she needed,
but she didn't qualify.
She was always either
too bright or too slow;
too young or too old;
too financially well-off
or not financially well-off enough;
too this or too that.
She grew to be a woman,
and her problems grew worse--
MUCH WORSE!
There was a cell on death-row
and an execution date--
She qualified.

Ainsley Jo Phillips

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