Posted on 07/25/2017 8:38:38 PM PDT by marshmallow
LONDON, England, July 25, 2017 (LifeSiteNews) – Great Ormond Street Hospital argued in court today that Charlie Gard's parents, who ended their legal fight to save their son from being removed from his ventilator, shouldn't be allowed to take him home to spend his final hours.
It's "absolutely tragic ... to see the hospital fight over this issue," human rights activist Rev. Patrick Mahoney, who is in England helping Charlie's parents, told LifeSiteNews.
Chris Gard and Connie Yates fought for months in British and European courts for the right to take their 11-month-old son, Charlie, to another hospital for treatment for his rare mitochondrial disease. Great Ormond Street Hospital (GOSH) argued that its bureaucrats, not Charlie's parents, should decide his fate. GOSH wanted to remove his ventilator.
Chris and Connie raised more than $1.5 million to transfer him to the U.S. Had Charlie been allowed a transfer months ago, his parents believe cutting-edge treatment could have greatly improved his life.
They announced Monday that they were ending their battle to allow Charlie to be transferred because tests from an American doctor showed Charlie's muscles had been allowed to deteriorate too much while the case was in court. Had the doctor been able to treat Charlie earlier, they say it would not have come to this.
"If Great Ormond Street Hospital had allowed Charlie's parents, which they maintained all along, to go to New York to seek this cutting-edge medical treatment, Charlie most likely would be greatly improved right now," Mahoney said in a Facebook live video outside the Royal Courts of Justice. Now, GOSH is continuing its "extremely distrubing" pattern of arguing against Charlie's parents' rights, he said.
"Great Ormond Street Hospital, which is considered one of the finest children's hospitals in the world, just said in open court they......
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Considering he would die soon after you unconnected him from his life support that would make you a murderer.
There isn’t either freedom or life in chains. In Britain they have chosen. Long live our revolution (though we struggle a bit to keep it).
This is so cruel. And when this poor baby dies, makes me wonder what these medical people will do.
The people in Venezuela have been willing to be non-violent to show the violence of the regime against them while protesting for three months now by the thousands and even millions.
In Oregon last year they protested non-violently exercising their First Amendment right while also exercising a Second Amendment right during the Oregon Standoff.
The FBI ended up firing the first shot in Oregon and the only violence came from their side in the end. LaVoy Finicum’s dead body living proof of who was “violent” and “extreme” in that situation.
If a million of us would show up somewhere in peace if needed to save a human life like Terri Schiavo’s or Charlie Gard’s, what a great moment that would be.
Am I the only one expecting the hospital to not turn over Charlie's body to his parents when he dies and secretly burn the body in the hospital incinerator out of spite?
This shows that the hospital people are all about the money — not saving lives. Or letting Charlie die at home.
What would it hurt, except the power of teh progressive elitists?
They seem to want to be as cruel as possible.
Charlie Gard is now the face of “universal health care.”
Just who do these “parents” think they are? Their offspring belongs to the herd managers.
And they have the unmitigated gall to call it compassion.
I understand that the thought of a baby dying makes people emotional and protective. However, I guarantee you that insurance companies in the US make the same type of calls and don’t pay for procedures just like the British government did.
We have children here in the US with no medical insurance and I guarantee that everyone on this board would vote against providing it for them. But they want to bring some British kid over here and let the American taxpayer pay for his treatment. Because I guarantee you that the 1.5 million the parents raised won’t even cover the cost of transporting this gravely ill child to the US.
All of you remind me of a liberal friend of mine I was discussing Obamacare with before it passed. I asked him what kind of level of care do you think Americans should have. He replied the same level that Bill Gates has. I pointed out to him that there is not enough money in the world to give all 360 million Americans the same care as Bill Gates has. Bill Gates can afford to fly the best podiatrist in the world to come and treat a hangnail. There is not enough money to do that for every American.
They should be dragged out of the hospital by their necks and strung up by about 1000 angry men and women.
I’d call that compassionate compared to what they deserve.
Dude. The family has money to pay for the treatment. But the government and hospital will not release the child.
Hasn’t the hospital screwed them enough?
> I guarantee you that insurance companies in the US make the same type of calls <
Yes, that’s true.
> All of you remind me of a liberal friend of mine... <
I think you went a bridge to far there. Most FR posts on this topic are more philosophical than practical. Folks here on FR (including you, I’ll bet) are against socialist death panels. The Charlie Gard case is a perfect example of a socialist death panel in action.
Bastards to the end.
Please permit me to add one more thing to my post #35. In the U.S., insurance companies will often deny payment for certain experimental procedures. But the patient is still free to seek help elsewhere.
Britain’s death panels do not allow that option.
They didn’t give a damn if he lived. Why the hell do they care where he dies? Oh yeah - they make money either way if they “oversee” his last days. Socialist bureaucrat pigs.
This is about health as a commodity, and the right of the state to dole out that commodity at its sole discretion.
Everything else is sideshow.
The issue is not money or lack of money.
It is their refusal to comply with the wishes of the parents.
You want to see emotional and protective? Some arrogant bureaucrat takes that arrogant tact with me when I’m the parent, and I will initiate deadly force on them.
Evil people exist in the world because they are allowed to live.
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