Posted on 07/02/2017 12:02:53 PM PDT by Morgana
Charlie Gard, the 10-month-old baby in the United Kingdom who is afflicted with a rare mitochondrial disease, will have his life support withdrawn after his parents lost their appeal to transport their son to the United States for an experimental treatment.
Baby Charlie, as he came to be known, cannot breathe on his own, has seizures, and suffered severe brain damage as a result of his disease. In March, doctors told Charlies parents that they did not believe that they could do anything further to treat their son, and recommended that they withdraw life support. Despite the grim diagnosis, Charlies parents raised over $1 million to move him to the U.S. for treatment, but the European Court of Human Rights ruled against them on Wednesday and will not permit them to treat their son.
The court said that they did not believe that the experimental treatment in the U.S. would benefit Charlie, and that it would cause him significant harm.
The domestic courts had concluded, on the basis of extensive, high-quality expert evidence, that it was most likely Charlie was being exposed to continued pain, suffering and distress and that undergoing experimental treatment with no prospects of success would offer no benefit, and continue to cause him significant harm.
On Facebook, Charlies parents said that they were heartbroken and that they were aghast that they were not permitted to choose when or where their son would die. Previously, they have said that they would like their son to pass away at home, not in a hospital. They are not permitted to take him home, and they say that the hospital is rushing to turn off the ventilator.
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Its absurd that a court can claim to know whats in Charlies best interest. His parents are neither negligent nor incompetent, and they should not be prohibited from trying a last-ditch effort to try to improve their sons life. Further, the fact that theyre not allowed to choose when and where to withdraw life support on their terms is maddening. This is a sickening violation of basic humanity.
Complete and total lack of compassion in the decision by the UK...
Very cute little guy, too.....
Death panels.
Killing them in the womb is one step removed from killing them outside the womb. Progressive government is pure evil.
Single payer, must save money and the powers that be know what’s good for you
Freedom. It isn’t free and those who seek security over it, receive and deserve neither. (Thanks to Ben Franklin)
We have the only country officially based on freedom — though we are losing it.
So true. This is the natural progression for Godless materialist states. Start with abortion before birth. Progress to euthanasia for the "incurable" and people who "will never have a good quality of life". From there the next step is to move on selected undesirable minority groups that "just don't belong". Historically most western cultures have started with Jews and moved on to other undesirables later.
The only good news is that civilization and religion evolved together and no society has ever survived for more than about a century without God at it's core. The bad news is that in the case of the UK, when religion does reassert itself it will probably be in the form of Islam.
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Britain’s national suicide continues and this child is just another victim.
This isn’t even an argument about dedicating monetary resources to it. The parents want to pay out of their own pockets but the ‘compassionate’ bureaucrats won’t let them. These same courts have no problems flooding their country with savages who routinely hurl acid in women’s faces. Inhuman a-holes. These are the kind of people who have no problem with mass murder of their own citizens ala the commies and Nazis.
This is totally sickening...
OK, they consider the child “terminal”...
He hasn’t passed yet and there is the slight chance that something in the US may help him live...
I don’t give a damn how “terminal” the UK thinks the kid is, he DESERVES a chance for help, no matter how small that chance may be...
Where the hell is the “Royal” family on all this?????
Say no to socialize medicine....
We can pray for a 100% Holy Spirit, in Jesus Holy Name miracle. Let’s do it. Let them be confounded. Let God’s truth and glory reign!
I wonder that too...what if it was Prince George who was ‘terminal’. I bet they would allow him to go to the US...
Let’s kill children who are sick..Death panels should not be the one who decide who lives and who die.
“How can human beings be so heartless.”
And why are so many heartless people in charge of doing such heartless things?
How much has been paid in 'benefits' to muzzie imports? Yet this lad can't be spared a few pounds to fly him to the USA, for treatment??!
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