Posted on 07/04/2017 10:27:10 AM PDT by Morgana
Both the U.S. president and the pope himself have weighed in on the case of Charlie Gard, the British 10-month-old whose life support is set to be removed after rulings by European courts.
Now some Kansas conservatives also are speaking up about the terminally ill baby, drawing comparisons to Simon’s Law, which went into effect Saturday in Kansas.
“We believe every one of us is created in the image of God and has dignity, and that includes Charlie even though he’s sick and small,” said Eric Teetsel, president of the Family Policy Alliance of Kansas. “We believe he has the right to live.”
Born with a rare genetic condition and resulting brain damage, Charlie is unable to move his arms or legs, eat or breathe on his own.
His parents, Chris Gard and Connie Yates, raised nearly $2 million to take him to the United States for an experimental treatment, but doctors objected.
A legal battle ensued, with three British courts ruling that Charlie should be taken off his life support.
The France-based European Court of Human Rights refused to hear the case on June 27, upholding the previous rulings that said further treatment would cause Charlie “significant harm,” the New York Times reported.
London’s Great Ormond Street Hospital was scheduled to take Charlie off of life support last Friday but postponed it.
(Excerpt) Read more at kansas.com ...
Imagine that: The effin government deciding whether your kid lives or dies. Ahhh the beauty of socialism, Democraps idea of utopia. THANK GOD HILLARY LOST! And these leftists got the gall to cry and protest. WAAAAH! The career criminal didn’t win! WAAAAAH!
*...further treatment would cause Charlie “significant harm,” the New York Times reported...*
Yeah...We don’t want to harm him, so let’s just kill him...
When you can...Charlie/Simon’s law ping~~
It is possibly that British and European courts do not recognize laws in Kansas.
The parents have enough money to fly the doctors with the treatment to London. Trump could provide the plane.
His parents, Chris Gard and Connie Yates, raised nearly $2 million to take him to the United States for an experimental treatment, but doctors objected.
Funding was ‘never’ an issue for treatment...there’s a lot of false information going on about this case.
They would need UK docs and a hospital to participate in that, which under their system means the government must ok it. I understand it is a drug treatment, but Charlie still needs sophisticated life support and he is already damaged.
This is more about how much Charlie will cost the UK system and about the authorities being too hidebound and proud to change their public stance. They need a way to save face before they can backtrack.
It’s also more than just possible that the majority of British do not consent to this law and others being imposed upon them, on the basis of the Brexit vote.
The NY Times report is correct....you discover this once you read all the data regarding this treatment. All the high courts agreed with the numerous teams of physicians who examined this child.
This has nothing to do with refusing treatment.....never did.
This is done each and every day all over the world when one entity makes our decisions for us.
Ask ordinary folk in GB how many of their elderly or new born babies were denied care. They don't necessarily think of it as "denial of care" it has become so routine.
A 40 something dad who is waiting in que for a heart scan, dies waiting for something as simple to us as a stint; a 60 something grandmum has an intestinal obstruction but must wait for an appointment to see her doctor for six weeks and can't go to the ER without his approval, dies of blood poisoning. These are but two real stories people living in GB told me.
There are Charlie Gard stories like that every day, they just don't make headlines.
Fly that Trump-emblazoned 757 into Heathrow and take the three of them out of there into asylum for treatment of this child, aim every camera in the world at it taking off. Let them scream. They have no idea how they look to most people. It isn’t good.
There was a report here yesterday that 18 Americans have been treated for similar problems successfully...
I, personally, do not take much of the NY Times to heart....
Trump could then challenge CNN to cover the story!
Charlie's parents are speaking up and the media is covering it. This is not a position the hospital likes or wants to be in. They are used to people just dying in the back rooms without the media being aware or caring about it. They are hoping that the baby will just die and they can go back to their backroom deaths with no one the wiser.
Spot on. Not to mention the different protocols, in the UK, from our own VERY sophisticated life support systems.
THAT would be glorious!!
I don’t doubt a word of this.
When my husband and I took care of wills and such, we found out that a spouse in the US does not necessarily have any say in treatment in the case of the patient being unable to respond verbally. We had to have legal documents giving each other that right.
“This is more about how much Charlie will cost the UK system”
NONE of these cases, and I repeat NONE, are ever about what it would cost the health care system. If that were true, the second time someone goes in for a drug related illness would result in the death penalty. Drugs will cost the health care system more than all the Charlies born since the beginning of time.
No, this is part of the “innocent human life deserves no protection.” This is a necessary movement if the sheeple are to be hoodwinked into abortion on demand.
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