Posted on 07/26/2017 1:45:28 PM PDT by Morgana
Charlie Gard’s mother Connie Yates today left a courtroom in tears after the judge in the case said Charlie would have to die in a hospice if his parents and the London Hospital that has been refusing to treat him properly can’t come to an agreement over where he will be when his life support is removed.
Charlie’s parents have been fighting with the hospital over whether or not they can take him home so he can be surrounded by friends and family after he is removed from life support. However the hospital has refused to allow him to go home — saying that it doesn’t think his ventilator would be able to fit through the front door of his house.
Charlie’s say they have found a doctor willing to look after the 11-month old boy so they can spend time with him at home away from the hospital during his final days but Judge Francis says Charlie will die in a hospice unless both sides can agree.
That prompted an emotional response from Yates.
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CHARLIE Gard’s mum has today fled the court in tears as a judge confirmed the tot will die in a hospice unless a deal is struck with Great Ormond Street by midday tomorrow.
Connie Yates – who is at the High Court alone – began crying and shouting “what if it was your child?” before leaving the hearing this afternoon.
A High Court judge was set to announce his decision on where Charlie will end his life after his parents and hospital lawyers took on a new legal fight – if the hospital and parents could not reach an agreement.
Fiona Paterson, a lawyer representing GOSH said the situation could not carry on and said “this cannot drag on into another day”.
After Mr Armstrong asked for 48 more hours to find an intensivist [board-certified physician who provides special care for critically ill patients] who can take care of Charlie, the judge said the indecision between the two groups is “compounding” the parents’ misery.
He said he was hoping for an agreement to be reached today and said: “I have gone out of my way to accommodate the parents’ wishes.”
He said he might give the parents until 12pm tomorrow to try to reach an agreement, but said there must be a “default position” if they cannot agree.
On Monday, Connie Yates and Chris Gard decided to end the legal battle to get their son experimental treatment. Based on new evidence, the couple said Charlie’s condition has deteriorated too much and there no longer is any hope of the treatment working.
Their final request to a judge this week was to be allowed to take Charlie home to die. The 11-month-old British infant has a rare mitochondrial disease and brain damage. His parents and Great Ormond Street Hospital have been in a months-long legal battle over his treatment.
“We promised Charlie every day we would take him home. It seems really upsetting, after everything we’ve been through, to deny us this,” his mother said.
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London High Court judge Justice Francis is expected to rule on the request today, according to the Daily Mail.
The hospital opposes the parents’ request. Its lawyers argued that Charlie needs to stay at the hospital or go to a hospice facility until he dies. Doctors claimed his ventilator will not fit through the door of his parents’ home, and he could suffer a painful death.
The 11-month-old British infant has a rare mitochondrial disease. His parents and Great Ormond Street Hospital have been in a months-long legal battle over his treatment.
His mother told Good Morning Britain previously that she does not want her son to suffer. She said it has been “absolute living hell” to wait and wonder when the hospital might end his life support.
“He’s our own flesh and blood and we don’t even have a say in his life whatsoever,” Yates said. “We are not bad parents, we are there for him all the time, we are completely devoted to him and he’s not in pain and suffering, and I promise everyone I would not sit there and watch my son in pain and suffering, I couldn’t do it.”
Questions remain about whether Charlie could have benefited from the experimental treatment, had it not been delayed for months during the legal battle between Charlie’s parents and the hospital. The court battle began in March.
In the Royal Court of Justice in London, Connie stated, “Charlie was left to lie [in Great Ormond Street Hospital] and deteriorate. We wanted Charlie to have the chance … [there] was never false hope, as confirmed by many experts. Now we’ll never know…” Connie and Chris underscored that they “should have been trusted as parents.”
Despite all of his problems, Charlie’s parents – and millions like them – believe that Charlie is a valuable, living human being who should be given a chance to live.
Leading pro-life advocates helped Charlie’s parents fight for his life.
Charlie’s parents brought Terri Schiavo’s brother Bobby Schindler to London to help them fight for care for their son. Schindler spoke with LifeNews exclusively about their invitation.
Schindler told LifeNews: “We are here by invitation from the family to come alongside them as they struggle to save their son, Charlie. The critical issue here is not a political one, but the simple notion that families know what is best for their loved ones.”
“Charlie’s situation is very reminiscent of my family’s battle to save my sister, Terri. Hopefully being here can help his parents, Connie and Charlie, deal with the day-to-day emotional roller coaster, as they fight for their son’s right to live,” Schindler added.
The so-called western democracies are just frauds today.
People are only subjects to God.
I don’t see too much difference between this and slavery.
Practically speaking, M’am, it IS his child as HE decides what will be what with respect to Charlie Gard.
This poor soul learned first hands what the affects of liberalism really are. May God bless this poor family.
This judge needs to be sanctioned by the United States government just like Iranian leaders, Venezuelan leaders etc.
President Trump banned some people from certain countries entering and this judge for starters needs to be specifically banned from entering the USA along with hospital staff also involved in denying Charlie Gard the treatment early on when it may have helped him.
This is single payer.
Thank a Republican.
“This is about people being brainwashed to believe that the people in government are just much more intelligent and compassionate than we mere mortals.”
It is that, and it is also a display of brute force; the State hivemind versus the individual.
This is meant to train plain folk that they are utterly impotent and exist by permission only. This is why I am confident that the day will come when a spark will set a fire which will burn them all, root and branch.
If I am still able, I will carry fuel to the conflagration.
Ah, the wonders of socialized medicine, where the state will decide for parents when their child’s medical treatment should stop, resulting in his death. And American liberals can’t wait to provide this to us.
This horror is about protecting the image of the liberal British health care system, not about healing. The British people as a whole are responsible for this.
Me neither.
Too bad Churchill failed to teach the British subjects about the value of free enterprise.
People have been gradually and slowly trained to be well behaved children, that it how we think of ourselves when we are before authorities and by authorities I am including the media which is the perfect brainwashing machine of the state constantly reinforcing the message that the state is always right. Communism with a soft touch.
The family wants hin to go home a a ventilator and be home for a few days, then extubate. That is the issue. There is no qualified doctor and probably not enough nurses ( although I read some of the ICU nurse volunteered, but you need a lot to cover all the times) willing to do this care.
It is not like sending someone home who has cancer to die in a hospice. They want an ICU bed at the house. Whole different issue.
I do think the hospital saying they cannot fit the vent into the house is fishy, but what they may mean is all the other equipment needed may be too much for a small apartment
Too bad Charlie doesn’t have McCain’s health plan!
This is what a tyrannical state can do to you if you’re not allowed to be armed.
What if it were your child? That’s a simple question. The judge’s child would have been expedited for any experimental treatment anywhere in the world. Some animals are more equal than others.
Too bad McCain doesn't have Charlie's illness.
“This is so bad if they are not.”
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What would their marital status have to do with this dreadful situation?
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