[miss marmelstein]

She’s blaming America for Charlie Gard. I ripped her one on FB. Melanie is ignorant about America although she frequently writes about it.

[SandRat]

With Red Coats in the way, we will greet you at the Campfire in the Sky Charlie.

[angryoldfatman]

They wanted to bring Charlie home to die. The hospital refused to agree because of the difficulties of providing the particular ventilation and other procedures for Charlie at home, and the potential for causing him yet more distress or even causing him to die before he got home.
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More distress than smothering to death? Causing him to die before he’s... I don’t know... dead?

Stupid liberals, want it both ways. Get the hospital to withdraw treatment AND blame the parents for the hospital’s poor public relations with regard to patient’s rights.

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The parents deserve only the most profound sympathy. Their unremitting rage at the hospital has to be seen in the context of mind-altering grief. In such a state, however, it is sometimes not possible to make decisions that really are in the best interests of their child. In this case, moreover, it is impossible to avoid the conclusion that their stress has been hugely compounded by one of the most cruelly ill-conceived campaigns of recent times.
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OH THESE POOR PEOPLE, THINKING THAT THEY HAVE ANY INDIVIDUAL RIGHTS TO SPEAK OF!! DON’T THEY KNOW THAT THEY ARE SERFS AND WE ARE THEIR MASTERS (until we disagree then there’s hell to pay, all hail leftist journalists right until they get lined up against the wall).

[conservatism_IS_compassion]

do all these people demonstrating outside the court and shrieking that Great Ormond Street hospital were “murderers”, or writing ignorant and intemperate op-eds in the American media declaring that only the parents had the right to decide what was in the best interests of their child, really believe that parents know better than neurologists about damage that has been done to the brain?

The parents had obtained a second opinion which conflicted with that of those “omniscient” neurologists.

You choose to believe who you want to believe. If the Americans who asserted that there was, months ago, a possibility of cure had respectable credentials, the question boils down to your choice of who to believe - and your “faith” in death as an alternative preferable to trying to save life. The parents chose differently than Melanie Phillips presumes to say is the only choice. The government of Britain demonstrated that its subjects actually did not have the choice they might have thought - because they actually live under more of a tyranny than they previously suspected.

[Wiser now]

What is the hospital really afraid of, the parents heading straight to a plane to fly to the US where he might receive treatment?

[conservatism_IS_compassion]

The parents deserve only the most profound sympathy.

Then you should try to grant it. It is most presumptuous of you to assume that the people who donated $1.5 million did so out of malice.

But your precious government “health service” must not be put to shame by superior quality health care which can to attained by society than can be done by government.