March 2024 Volume 39, Issue 1
Life News
Promoting the sanctity of life
Welcome Greetings to you in the name of our risen Lord, Jesus Christ! In this issue, we
Inside this issue
have an incredible life-story submitted by a reader, an article produced on Vol-
Welcome................................................1
untary Assisted Dying as published in the LTJ, a movie review, and some goings
Judah’s story.........................................1
on from the LFL committee. I pray you find this edition encouraging and edify-
Assisted Suicide in Contemporary
ing.
Entertainment: Me Before You.......3
Joseph Theodorsen - Chair, Lutherans for Life.
Legalisation of VAD in Australia: how did we get here and how do we respond?.........................................6 Upcoming events................................8
Judah’s story
Life News Snippets.............................9
The following article is
Graduates dinner..............................10
published with thanks to
LfL out and about..............................11
Judah’s mother, Hannah, and
great
grandfather,
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Irwin Traeger . It was writ-
Life News is the
ten by Hannah.
newsletter of My husband and I had an
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extremely traumatic 20-
Est. in 1987
week scan, and a traumat-
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ic journey since then. We
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were told; “part of your baby’s brain is missing, and
Hannah, Jarrad, and Judah.
we don’t know what that means”.
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What ensued was six weeks of extensive testing through the high-risk Maternal
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Foetal Medicine (MFM) team (amniocentesis, genetic testing, in-utero MRI brain
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etc etc), medical recommendations and many, many, many conversations about
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termination. The MFM team explained that Judah’s Septum Pellucidum is absent,
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which is involved in midbrain separation and is very close to the optic nerve and pituitary gland.