Posted on 04/21/2018 3:22:17 AM PDT by Morgana
The parents of little Alfie Evans are headed back to a European Court in a desperate attempt to save his life. Today the British Supreme Court denied their effort to stop the revocation of his life support, which would probably end his life.
The Supreme Court in the United Kingdom today decided that Alder Hey Children’s Hospital can be allowed to proceed with its decision to yank Alfie’s life support without their consent. Alfie’s parents had relied on a habeas corpus bid to get the court to agree with them that they have the right to withdraw Alfie from the hospital since they are his parents and legal guardians. However the British High Court disagreed with their contention today.
Alfie suffers from a rare neurological condition that is destroying his body and doctors at the Children’s Hospital say his condition is too far gone and so they want to withdraw his life support which could kill him. His parents say they have a hospital in Rome, Italy ready to take him to provide appropriate medical care and treatment that the Children’s Hospital is denying and possible treatment that could overcome his neurological disorder. But the Children’s Hospital refuses to allowAlfie’s parents to take him to Italy.
Now his parents are headed to the European Court of Human Rights after Britain’s Supreme Court sided with the Children’s Hospital that will terminate his life support over his parents objections.
As ANSA reports:
On Monday Italian Foreign Minister Angelino Alfano urged his British counterpart, Boris Johnson, to allow Alfie, who is suffering from an undiagnosed degenerative disease to be transferred to medical facilities in Rome.
Alfano asked for the parents’ request to be granted to take the boy to the hospital in the Italian capital, “medical facilities of a very high level that accept him in on the base of an agreement”. He noted, however, that “Alfie is a British citizen and Italy respects the decisions made in the framework of British national jurisdiction” and that “the British national healthcare system and medical standards are among the highest in the world”.
SIGN THE PETITION! Please Let Alfie Evans’ Parents Take Care of Him
Alfie’s parents have already been to the European Court of Human Rights and lost in their first attempt to save Alfie. They are hopeful the second attempt will yield better results.
After meeting Pope Francis at the Vatican, Alfie Evans’ father says the Vatican hospital is “ready to take Alfie immediately” and provide the care and treatment Alder Hey Children’s Hospital refuses to provide.
Tom Evans posted on the Alfie Army Facebook page to describe his time in Rome – where he met the Pope and the president of the Bambino Gesú hospital.
“The president of Bambino Gesú called me in for a meeting. She wants to take Alfie as soon as tomorrow and will do everything for him,” Evans explained. “Even if we find a diagnosis they will continue to search for a cure. She even wanted to come and meet him herself and still does. She was such a lovely woman and said they will do everything they can for Alfie as they would with any other.
“Pray hard this is Alfie’s step to his desperately needed transfer,” he said.
Evans also described what led to his trip to meet with Pope Francis.
He said: “Wow, what an emotionally exciting blessed 12 hours. I jumped on the plane at 11 last night [Tuesday] to Athens, got there for 4:50am, then took off at 6:05 to Rome to meet the Pope. Straight after interviews with various countries’ media – a lot of them. I spoke to the director of Vatican News, then was alerted the Pope had sent an urgent request to Bambino to take Alfie as soon as possible.”
Evans added: “Our child is sick, but not dying and does not deserve to die. He is not terminally ill nor diagnosed. We have been trying our best to find out his condition to treat or manage it.”
“I am now here in front of Your Holiness to plea for asylum, our hospitals in the UK do not want to give disabled children the chance of life and instead the hospitals in the UK are now assisting death in children. Alfie is not dying, so we do not want to take him out the way the hospital wish us to. We see life and potential in our son and we want to bring him here to Italy, at Bambino Gesú, where we know he is safe and he will not be euthanised.”
But it appears Alfie’s life is out of their control now.
Six Steps To Utopia:
Step 1. Allow the use of artificial means to suppress reproduction.
Step 2. Allow pregnancies to be terminated by abortion.
Step 3. Achieve full state control of the delivery of healthcare and foster dependency.
Step 4. Mandate the clinical extermination of physically or mentally defective children and the elderly.
Step 5. Mandate the clinical extermination of other individuals, the cost of whose sustenance is judged to be greater than their potential contribution to the state.
Step 6. Build holding facilities and mandate the extermination of all people whose political beliefs, race or religion makes them incompatible with the society as a whole.
I believe you
Just for the record, the European Court of Human Rights is not part of the European Union. I agree they are very unlikely to do anything to overrule the British courts in this terrible case, but given the current political climate in the UK, I think it should be understood that this not an appeal to the EU.
The European Court of Human Rights is under the authority of an older pan-European organisation, the Council of Europe. The United Kingdom will remain part of the Council of Europe, and the ECHR will still have some legal power in the UK, even after Brexit is completed, because of this separate status.
Meanwhile, Trump’s trip to the UK is back on. Set for July.
Yes they will, the British court system seems to get some sick satisfaction out of playing God. American hospitals and doctors offered to treat Charlie and millions of dollars were raised to bring him here and still the British said NO! he will die.
One would think that the British would have been glad to let Charlie come to America. What harm would there be? It wasn’t costing them anything, but still they refused on the grounds that if they treat Charlie they must treat all children, isn’t that what they are supposed to do?
Prayers for Charlie and Alfie. May the British court system and the NHS rot.
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Unlike the other thread, now I know what country this family is in...
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