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Charlie Gard parents end legal fight for 'beautiful' baby
BBC ^ | July 24, 2017 | BBC

Posted on 07/24/2017 12:14:06 PM PDT by Morgana

A lawyer representing Chris Gard and Connie Yates told the High Court "time had run out" for the baby.

Mr Gard said it meant his "sweet, gorgeous, innocent little boy" will not reach his first birthday on 4 August.

"To let our beautiful little Charlie go" is "the hardest thing we'll ever have to do", his mother said.

Charlie's parents said they made the decision because a US doctor had told them it was now too late to give Charlie nucleoside therapy.

(Excerpt) Read more at bbc.com ...


TOPICS: Chit/Chat; Health/Medicine
KEYWORDS: charliegard; prolife; terrislist
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The pictures on this link tell it all. People in England are very upset, as am sure so are people in America.
1 posted on 07/24/2017 12:14:06 PM PDT by Morgana
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To: BykrBayb

A picture is worth a thousand words.


2 posted on 07/24/2017 12:14:42 PM PDT by Morgana ( Always a bit of truth in dark humor.)
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To: Morgana
" . . . a US doctor had told them it was now too late to give Charlie nucleoside therapy."
remember the death panels?
3 posted on 07/24/2017 12:18:17 PM PDT by JohnBrowdie
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To: Morgana

My heart breaks for these parents

The British health care system should be ashamed of itself for delaying so long. But then that is what single payer is designed to do

May the angels sing him home

May God grant his parents mercy and peace


4 posted on 07/24/2017 12:20:52 PM PDT by Nifster (I see puppy dogs in the clouds will parents sometimes foster first but not always)
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To: JohnBrowdie

Looks like the Brit “experts” slow walked things long enough for little Charlie to to get bad enough that the experimental treatment would not help...

His death will be on your hands and hearts forever, you sorry churls....


5 posted on 07/24/2017 12:23:01 PM PDT by JBW1949 (I'm really PC....PATRIOTICALLY CORRECT!!!!)
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To: Morgana

“Occasionally there were circumstances when a hospital and the parents were unable to agree what course of action was in the best interest of the child patient, in that instance the decision is referred to an independent judge...”

So even with their own money to pay for treatment, it was denied because the hospital disagreed.


6 posted on 07/24/2017 12:23:16 PM PDT by PMAS (All that is necessary for the triumph of evil is that good men do nothing)
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To: Nifster

What you said.


7 posted on 07/24/2017 12:24:36 PM PDT by pax_et_bonum (Never Forget the Seals of Extortion 17 - and God Bless The United States of America.)
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To: Morgana

The picture of him looking and smiling at his dad should be forever placed in the British courtroom and the main entrance to the hospital forever....


8 posted on 07/24/2017 12:25:02 PM PDT by JBW1949 (I'm really PC....PATRIOTICALLY CORRECT!!!!)
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To: Morgana
Britain's health system would collapse if it was discovered that patients who die in Britain could be saved in other countries...particularly the United States.Such a realization would cost them billions *and* show their health system to be inferior to those of other countries.

Also,Brits not only see their system as being superior to everything else on earth but they see *our* system as being just about the most barbaric you'll find.

This ruling was a victory for the British Medical Society,an organization far more concerned with image than patients.

9 posted on 07/24/2017 12:25:07 PM PDT by Gay State Conservative (Comey = The Swamp Fighting Back)
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“Occasionally there were circumstances when a hospital and the parents were unable to agree what course of action was in the best interest of the child patient, in that instance the decision is referred to an independent judge...”

I predict these doctors and judges will be judged by the ultimate judge.

10 posted on 07/24/2017 12:30:10 PM PDT by Newbomb Turk (Hey Newbomb, where is your bothers ElCamino ?)
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To: Newbomb Turk

Agreed, I would not want to be them


11 posted on 07/24/2017 12:39:38 PM PDT by PMAS (All that is necessary for the triumph of evil is that good men do nothing)
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To: Morgana

I can be a real p*!(k @ times but this story makes me well up and I wish I never saw it if not only for the heart break of the parents.
For those Freepres that will tell me these things happen every day,( you know who you are) screw you, I don’t read about those every day


12 posted on 07/24/2017 12:45:15 PM PDT by CGASMIA68
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To: Morgana

Run out the clock strategy.

State medicine couldn’t let someone seek private practice care.

Death panels don’t like to be challenged.


13 posted on 07/24/2017 12:45:58 PM PDT by a fool in paradise (Bill Clinton and Al Gore took illegal campaign contributions from the Chi-Coms and 'nobody' cared..)
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To: Newbomb Turk

“Vengeance is mine!”... Sayeth the Lord!


14 posted on 07/24/2017 12:51:02 PM PDT by hoosiermama (When you open your heart to patriotism, there is no room for prejudice.DJT)
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To: JBW1949; BykrBayb; metmom; Mrs. Don-o; Tennessee Nana; Salvation; little jeremiah

“The picture of him looking and smiling at his dad should be forever placed in the British courtroom and the main entrance to the hospital forever....

True that but the pictures that got me were the protesters. They all women. Most of the time I’m posting stuff of women who are “pro choice” and want abortions to kill their babies. Here what you saw were women protesting the death of a baby then crying when they lost. That so got to me in ways you guys will never know.


15 posted on 07/24/2017 12:55:59 PM PDT by Morgana ( Always a bit of truth in dark humor.)
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To: Morgana
Matthew 10:42 And whoever gives one of these little ones even a cup of cold water because he is a disciple, truly, I say to you, he will by no means lose his reward.”

Matthew 25:40 And the King will answer them, ‘Truly, I say to you, as you did it to one of the least of these my brothers, you did it to me.’

16 posted on 07/24/2017 1:06:49 PM PDT by metmom ( ...fixing our eyes on Jesus, the Author and Perfecter of our faith..)
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To: Morgana

To see it in Britain, and to know it is not all lost. There is still hope in that country.


17 posted on 07/24/2017 1:07:52 PM PDT by ican'tbelieveit
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The picture of him looking and smiling at his dad should be forever placed in the British courtroom and the main entrance to the hospital forever....

I agree. A would-be patient should probably know going in that they are dealing with some cold-hearted bastards that would let that baby die. I thought we were more humane than the ancient Spartans or Romans when it came to "viable" babies. I guess we're not...

18 posted on 07/24/2017 1:22:07 PM PDT by Sans-Culotte (Time to get the US out of the UN and the UN out of the US!)
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To: Morgana

Bureaucracies kill. Just ask our Veterans. May God bless and keep little Charlie Gard.


19 posted on 07/24/2017 1:43:20 PM PDT by lakecumberlandvet (Appeasement never works.)
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” There is still hope in that country.”

There is actually. Many of them are copying our pro life ways and protesting abortion clinic. Don’t know if any of these women are from these groups but they may be or they may join them in the future. Pray they do.

http://abort67.co.uk/

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lA5Nx3ayeRo


20 posted on 07/24/2017 1:48:40 PM PDT by Morgana ( Always a bit of truth in dark humor.)
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