Posted on 07/17/2017 10:32:13 PM PDT by KingofZion
So Charlie Gard’s fate now comes down to this: whether an American doctor can persuade a British judge that little Charlie’s life is worth living.
The child cannot see, cannot hear, and suffers from a genetic disorder for which there is no cure—yet he has exposed the great fault line between the post-Christian West and its past. For most of history, men and women have regarded suffering as part of life. But as medicine tames once-deadly afflictions and the idea of some larger meaning to the cosmos wanes, suffering comes to appear less a part of the natural order than an intolerable anomaly.
*** Let us stipulate a distinction between removing someone from life support, as the hospital proposes, and taking active measures to induce death. Put another way, if Connie Yates and Chris Gard —Charlie’s parents—decided to remove their son from his ventilator and allow nature to take its course, it would be a difficult but eminently defensible position.
But the claim asserted by the representatives of Britain’s state-run health care system is more sweeping and insidious: This is our call, they say. Such is the Great Ormond Street Hospital’s sense of dominion, says Ms. Yates, that it refused to allow Charlie to come home to die, wrapped in the loving arms of his mom and dad.
In the Book of Exodus the Israelites are warned that theirs is a “jealous God,” but there is no god more jealous than single-payer health care. For at the heart of single payer is single authority. Isn’t it striking how resentful the legal and health care authorities are that Charlie’s family has raised $1.7 million, thus taking money off the table as an excuse to deny him the offered treatments?
(Excerpt) Read more at wsj.com ...
Not so much a "death panel"..more a protocol
The Liverpool Pathway
A quick trip from ward to morgue
Anyone like Charlie, a senior, some teenager smashed up in a motorcycle accident....a premie....
Top doctor's chilling claim: The NHS kills off 130,000 elderly patients ...
www.dailymail.co.uk/.../Top-doctors-chilling-claim-The-NHS-kills-130-000-elderly-..
. Jun 19, 2012 - NHS doctors are prematurely ending the lives of thousands of elderly ... He added: 'If we accept the Liverpool Care Pathway we accept that ...
Deathtracked: Involuntary Euthanasia Through The Liverpool Care ...
https://www.thomhartmann.com/.../deathtracked-involuntary-euthanasia-through-liver...
Feb 20, 2015 - 8 posts - 2 authors
(BBC) Liverpool Care Pathway: 'They told my family I was dying' ... dubbed it the "road to death" and accused the NHS of killing off thousands of elderly patients. ..... Lucid, Poor, Elderly Veteran Euthanized Against His Will.
Abort those worthless old conservative geezers and save trillions in payouts, then replace them with the huddled masses in headscarves
In the future, Republicans will NOT get the Health Care that DEmocrats will be given because the powers that be KNOW how we VOTE.
Actually, this is not the question at all. Charlie Gard is dying and nothing can change that. At this point, the question is whether he is allowed to pass peacefully, or to pass while he is being used as a guinea pig.
Having a “protocol” is much more to the liking of Government than an actual death panel with real people having their decisions reviewable by outsiders. It’s much easier to hide behind a law than admit that you kill people. The non-lethal version of that principle in this country is the BRAC process, in which Congress-critters never have to admit that they voted to kill a military base in their district. “I didn’t do it, the BRAC Committee did,” wile ignoring the fact that Congress set up the BRAC process in the first place.
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