01/31/2022
DEATH PENALTY FOR VAX REFUSAL--
--SEGREGATION AT BC HIGH--
Vax or Die Since last year, persons with religious, ethical or medical objections to mandatory vaccination have suffered the loss of jobs, livelihoods, health insurance coverage, educational and professional opportunities and, for some graduate students, future academic careers. Now, a Massachusetts man, suffering from advanced cardiac disease, is facing the loss of his life for refusing to accept Covid vaccination.
David J. Ferguson, Jr., 31, of the Town of Hopedale in Worcester County, has been removed from a waiting list for heart transplants by Brigham & Women's Hospital in Boston, because of his decision to decline vaccination. Ferguson is the father of two children and is expecting a third. He was diagnosed with arrhythmia four years ago.
According to his father, also named David Ferguson, "He needs a heart to live, and they are coercing him into making a decision that is against his will, his intellect, his judgment, his core belief. It is not right to do so."
As a temporary measure, Ferguson, after seven hours of heart surgery, has been fitted with a left ventricular mechanical pump, to assist his heart. It may prolong his life for up to five years, but his ability to live a normal existence will be severely restricted.
While appalling, the decision by the world renowned Brigham & Women's Hospital to consign this man to a likely death, for refusing to conform to an arbitrary and inflexible bureaucratic protocol, is not surprising. It is not an institution defined by respect for the sanctity of life.
Brigham & Women's is a major perpetrator of both surgical and medical abortions in the Bay State. According to the Massachusetts Department of Public Health, 493 pre-born children were killed by Brigham & Women's in 2020.
BC High Segregates Both the Catholic News Agency and LifeSiteNews have now published articles detailing the unwarranted, punitive and ludicrously extreme policy of Jesuit administered Boston College High School, which forces unvaccinated students to eat lunch in the school gymnasium behind plexiglass barriers.
Segregating students by vaccination status is opposed by the U.S. Center for Disease Control. The Archdiocese of Boston does not require unvaccinated students to be segregated and has expressly forbidden mandatory vaccination in Catholic schools.
More disturbingly, the school's unvaccinated students are prohibited from participating in sports and extracurricular activities, key factors in determining college admissions and scholarships.
Concerned parents have rightly petitioned the school's Board of Trustees, complaining that "students will regard their classmates as potential biohazards." In a letter to the principal, Adam Lewis, the Catholic Action League said that "depriving some students of full participation in the educational experience of high school, based on their vaccination status, may be regarded, reasonably, as coercive pressure to accept vaccination. This is a practice prohibited by Catholic teaching."
The League in the News The letter to the editor from the Catholic Action League, defending Father Michael Fitzpatrick, the Pastor of Saint Francis Xavier Parish in Hyannis, was published, in its entirety, by the Cape Cod Times, on January 20th. Father Fitzpatrick, who is supported by his parishioners, had been silenced by Fall River Bishop Edgar M. da Cunha for questioning vaccine reception by Catholics.
The January print edition of New England's only reliably conservative broadsheet newspaper, The Boston Broadside, published the League's December News Update on public officials, citing the words of the Pope, to deny Catholics religious exemptions to the vaccine mandate. The Broadside also published the League's letter to the editor on the hypocrisy of Catholic Memorial School in invoking the famously pro-life Saint Mother Teresa, while honoring pro-abortion politicians.
