Now What Will Happen to Baby Joseph?

Listen here to "What Will Happen to Baby Joseph?": An interview of Dr. Martin McCaffrey, a neonatalogist at the University of North Carolina/ Chapel Hill, where he discusses the 'covert' mission to rescue 'Baby Joseph" from a hospital in Ontario, Canada.

At the Consent and Capacity Board hearing in London Ontario, a board created to keep cases out of the superior court in Ontario. The board had three members (an attorney, a community member, and a psychiatrist) and after hearing the lawyers speak they concluded that the family was not acting in the best interest of their 14 month old son Joseph and removed parental rights to decisions for their child and placed it in the hands of the Doctors caring for him in the hospital. During the hearing the most concerning statement was made by the attorney who was appointed by the hospital to represent Baby Joseph and she stated,

 " The parents have their own views, opinions, values, and beliefs... To prolong Joseph's life serves them in their needs... (Joseph) he did not have values and beliefs and he could not think... Joseph deserved to have his parents make decisions that put his best interest ahead of their own... that they (the parents) could not base a decision for him (Joseph) on their own needs."