Whoever takes Charlie will be agreeing to sustain ‘the body’ of Charlie via machinery.... and why the parents have difficulty finding those who will.....
I don't put any weight in what the Vatican may or not say regarding this child.....they have not examined him...and even then I would not send my child there.
You may not like what I'm saying but this child is in catostr0phic condition with no hope ever of having anything remotely close to a normal life...or even life itself in the sense of what that actually is. I do not support sustaining a dying body from a disease that would have taken him months ago...which is destroying his organs, brain and every part of this child....and there is nothing to stop this...it 'IS' the disease and natural progress of it...of which Charlie has the most severe and rarest and why no child with it has been treated with the drugs that are used for lesser conditions.
You can go by the hype and all the emotional and political hype going on if you want.....I will not support what they are doing to this childs body.....never. It's cruel and abusive and that's simply from a medical position. He is dying if already not dead while they are sustaining this child in the world that none can say he isn't suffering in.. I would not do that to my child.
‘The reason other hospitals would not take Charlie, aside from the advanced stages of his illness, is this is a case ripe for the parents to sue.....and be assured they have given every indication this will be forthcoming.’
You said the threat of a lawsuit was the reason other hospitals would not take Charlie. But drs in the US have been volunteering to treat him for months—someone posted that the first offer came in January. More recently the Vatican children’s hospital offered to take Charlie.
I’m just pointing out that the parents are not so litigious as to preclude a willingness and eagerness by other drs/hospitals to take Charlie’s case.