Posted on 07/10/2017 11:26:46 AM PDT by Morgana
In the mother of all face-saving, the London hospital that had originally planned to kill off baby Charlie Gard, "for his own good," has seen the light and decided not to pull the plug. They will even allow this baby, with his very rare genetic condition, known as mitochondrial DNA depletion syndrome, to be treated with an experimental therapy offered freely from the United States.
"Two international hospitals and their researchers have communicated to us as late as the last 24 hours that they have fresh evidence about their proposed experimental treatment," the hospital said in the statement. "And we believe, in common with Charlie's parents, it is right to explore this evidence."
That wasn't their attitude a week ago, before the protests, the statements from President Trump and Pope Francis, and the general global disgust that a purported place of healing would throw away a baby like so much garbage solely because they had no idea how to treat him and didn't want anyone else to treat him, either. This hospital under its socialized medicine regime was so cold-hearted that in addition to wanting to pull the plug on the child a week ago, it also refused to allow the baby's parents to take their little one home to die with dignity. They really, really wanted the baby to die in an icy institution instead – under their "care," of course.
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All it is is saving face. They don’t care about the baby.
YES!! Praise God!!
More POTUS Winning!!
I disagree. They care. This makes killing the next one harder. Something they don’t want.
Except both Britain's and the EeeeeU's highest court have already ruled that they can't.
Very true. They never cared about Charlie or his parents.
Still, even if they’re doing the right thing for the wrong reason, they’re still doing the right thing. ()Better late than never.)
What if the baby, as we fervently hope, is actually saved by the treatment in the US? How embarrassing for this hospital, and the UK health care system, and the EU bureaucrats.
Maybe they wouldn’t let the baby go home because they wanted its organs
Charlie’s condition likely means his organs aren’t salvageable.
This is purely about control and costs.
Actually, this is a case where better late is not better than never. This baby’s chances at some degree of possible recovery have been irreparably harmed by the hospital’s decision to take their power play all the way to the disgusting Euro court. They are still taking their sweet time getting the baby that experimental treatment.
Yep...I’ll pass on the Pope part....especially after his INITIAL statements, on this tragic situation :...(
So is he coming to the US?
The people making these decisions all have addresses.
All of them.
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Treating that child under the NHS in Great Ormond Street Hospital with experimental treatment from the US creates a perverse incentive for the hospital to still allow him to die. It proves them right.
Get him out of there.
Welcome to single payer.
Sure is nice to see that the hospital admin who recently felt it best to let this baby starve to death, has changed its position, and cares now. After all, thats part of the phrase "HealthCare".
My conspiratorial side warns me about supporting "advanced treatments" in light of the Project Veritas videos that have came out.
I choose as natural a life as possible but run like hell with your baby from that place !!!
Agree who in their right mind would trust that hospital to administer the treatment properly after it is provided? If it “didn’t work” and the baby died they would claim they were right all along and never mention they didn’t comply with proper protocol. Get the baby to a real hospital in the US!
This is like back in the 1800s when Utah wanted to become a state, and the LDS bishops suddenly had a brand new revelation that polygamy was wrong.
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