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NHS Doctor: Starving Alfie Evans to Death ‘Is Not the Killing of A Child,’ It’s Just ‘Redirecting...
CNS NEWS ^ | April 27, 2018 | Craig Bannister

Posted on 04/28/2018 2:07:44 PM PDT by Morgana

FULL TITLE: NHS Doctor: Starving Alfie Evans to Death ‘Is Not the Killing of A Child,’ It’s Just ‘Redirecting Care’

Forcing 23 month-old Alfie Evans to die by starvation “is not killing,” Dr. Ranj Singh argued on U.K.’s “This Morning” ITV program Friday, Express reports.

Withdrawing life-support and refusing to allow Alfie’s parents to take him home, feed and care for him, is, instead merely “redirecting care,” Dr. Singh said:

“This is not the killing of a child - this is redirecting care to make them more comfortable.”

In Alfie’s case, redirecting care to make him “more comfortable” means denying him food, water and life support. Dr. Singh doubled down on his claim, framing the withdrawal of life support as a way to make patients more comfortable and give them "the most dignifying life”:

“Withdrawing life support is not killing someone. It is redirecting care to make them more comfortable and give them the most dignifying life that you can.”

Dr. Singh also said pro-life Alfie supporters outside the Alder Hey Hospital protesting to save Alfie’s life are behaving “disgustingly”:

“There’s a small proportion who have - I will say it - behaved disgustingly.”

Dr. Singh is a clinical technician who works for the U.K.’s government-run health care system, National Health Service (NHS), which fought, and won, in court to end Alfie’s life.


TOPICS: Health/Medicine
KEYWORDS: alfieevans; docranjsingh; prolife; terrislist
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To: LIConFem; Morgana; savedbygrace

I know a retired ethics professor from Leeds University in the UK. Kind of a maverick, he doesn’t believe doctors should intentionally kill patients. He mourns the moral collapse of his profession. Fancy that. He gave me the tagline.


21 posted on 04/28/2018 2:34:17 PM PDT by Mrs. Don-o (Some things are so obviously depraved that only an ethicist could approve of them.)
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To: Morgana

A rational society would be directing Dr. Ranj Singh to a gallows in the public square.

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22 posted on 04/28/2018 2:35:55 PM PDT by Lurker (President Trump isn't our last chance. President Trump is THEIR last chance.)
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To: Vaquero

Remember when the lying lawyer with the complicit swamp judge said removing Terri Schiavo’s feeding tube and water would lead to a peaceful, dignified death? Well her brother Bobby Schindler shared how Terri greatly suffered a cruel. horrible ending to her life in this manner. Liars and wicked cretins from hades in medical and judicial garb.


23 posted on 04/28/2018 2:45:13 PM PDT by tflabo (Varmints)
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To: Morgana

They murdered little Alfie.


24 posted on 04/28/2018 2:54:34 PM PDT by ConjunctionJunction
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To: Mrs. Don-o

LOL


25 posted on 04/28/2018 2:58:00 PM PDT by savedbygrace
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To: Morgana

And me shooting “Dr.” Singh is just adding needed minerals to the Dr’s body!


26 posted on 04/28/2018 2:58:55 PM PDT by RedMonqey (" Those who turn their arms in for plowshares will be doing the plowing for those who didnÂ’t.")
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To: Morgana

Dr. Singh probably hails from some third-world sh!+hole, where life is cheap and expendable, and the infant mortality rate is 20% of the actual birthrate.


27 posted on 04/28/2018 3:01:27 PM PDT by factoryrat (We are the producers, the creators. Grow it, mine it, build it. MAGA!)
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To: LIConFem

40 grain copper jacketed lead, delivered to this freaks head at around 1500fps will make him more comfy, but not forever. His forever is going to be hot as hell.


28 posted on 04/28/2018 3:03:13 PM PDT by MHGinTN (A dispensational perspective is a powerful tool for discernment)
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To: LIConFem

Look at doctors in America. Ugly happening thete too.


29 posted on 04/28/2018 3:03:50 PM PDT by amihow
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To: Morgana

“It is a sad irony that while the people of the UK are busy celebrating a royal birth, its government is brushing off a commoner’s right to life,” Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas, tweeted earlier this week in reference to the birth of the Princess Kate and William’s baby and Alfie’s removal from life support.

ABC News, Alfie, terminally ill British boy taken off life support, dies: Father, April 28, 2018


30 posted on 04/28/2018 3:03:56 PM PDT by Aliska
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To: ASOC

Bingo!


31 posted on 04/28/2018 3:04:59 PM PDT by MHGinTN (A dispensational perspective is a powerful tool for discernment)
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To: neverevergiveup

Yeah. Be watchful. Left a doctor who had a recently earned MBA on his wall.


32 posted on 04/28/2018 3:06:22 PM PDT by amihow
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To: Morgana

Many successful Indians are very well schooled and intelligent.

Intelligence has nothing to do with moral capacity.

Why are people expecting people from different moral universes like Hindi or Moslim to have the same moral values as Christian West??

Absurd.


33 posted on 04/28/2018 3:11:39 PM PDT by Chickensoup (Leftists today are speaking as if they plan to commence to commit genocide against conservatives.)
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To: browniexyz

If Dr. Singh’s patient hadn’t been a little white English boy, would we have seen a different outcome?

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Why are people here expecting people from different moral universes like Hindi or Moslim to have the same moral values as Christian West??


34 posted on 04/28/2018 3:15:47 PM PDT by Chickensoup (Leftists today are speaking as if they plan to commence to commit genocide against conservatives.)
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To: Morgana

Evil knows no boundaries.


35 posted on 04/28/2018 3:16:49 PM PDT by Karliner (Jeremiah29:11,Romans8:28 Isa 17, Damascus has fallen)
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To: McGavin999

I think the very reason the U.K. has devolved into its current state, is because the people became too “tolerant” and accepting. I imagine that in the beginning, they were trying to be less “imperialistic”, than they were before ww2, (which was a huge sea change for every country), but they went too far the opposite way. That war, somehow, changed the way most people raised their children, spent their money, lived their lives, post-war. I wasn’t born til the early 50’s, so I didn’t experience that change, itself, even though I was a product of the “new” way of doing and thinking about things. While I wasn’t indulged, I, of course, have read about how parenting changed, people wanted their children not to have to struggle, etc. I would be interested in hearing from those of you who patented in those post-war years. What made you change from the way YOU were patented.


36 posted on 04/28/2018 3:18:02 PM PDT by Flaming Conservative ((Pray without ceasing))
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To: Morgana

F*cking Nazis.


37 posted on 04/28/2018 3:18:56 PM PDT by chris37 ("I am everybody." -Mark Robinson)
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To: Flaming Conservative

Parented NOT patented!


38 posted on 04/28/2018 3:24:09 PM PDT by Flaming Conservative ((Pray without ceasing))
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To: Chickensoup
To be fair, there are lots of Hindus who have a profound respect for life. I suspect these NHS doctors got their morals from a secular humanist education.

I remember the Columbine school shooting. People were asking "Who let Klebold and Harris have access to guns?" I asked, "Who let Klebold and Harris have access to Nietzsche?"

39 posted on 04/28/2018 3:26:21 PM PDT by Mrs. Don-o (Pray for the *%$#s. It's the only way to help him, or you, become a bit worthier as a human being.)
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To: Flaming Conservative

I think you are right. The first thing leftists do is make people ashamed of their past. Yes, the Brits colonized a large part of the world, but they brought civilization, medicine, arts, and bettered the way of life for untold people. The bad part of the war is so many brave and noble men were lost in the battles. That allowed the leftists to infiltrate and work on the younger generation. It’s really sad because the Brits are so important to the civilized world.

I hope they wake up in time. The world can not spare them, male or female.


40 posted on 04/28/2018 3:26:37 PM PDT by McGavin999 ("The press is impotent when it abandons itself to falsehood."Thomas Jefferson)
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