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Parents of Charlie Gard: “We are Utterly Heartbroken. We Can’t Even Take Our Son Home to Die”
Life News ^ | June 30, 2017 | Christine Rousselle

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10-month-old baby in the United Kingdom who is afflicted with a rare mitochondrial disease, will have his life support withdrawn after his parents lost their appeal to transport their son to the United States for an experimental treatment.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 Charlie’s 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, Charlie’s 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, Charlie’s 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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It’s absurd that a court can claim to know what’s in Charlie’s 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 son’s life. Further, the fact that they’re not allowed to choose when and where to withdraw life support on their terms is maddening. This is a sickening violation of basic humanity.


TOPICS: Health/Medicine
KEYWORDS: charliegard; prolife; terrislist
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1 posted on 07/02/2017 12:02:53 PM PDT by Morgana
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To: Morgana

Complete and total lack of compassion in the decision by the UK...

Very cute little guy, too.....


2 posted on 07/02/2017 12:08:11 PM PDT by JBW1949 (I'm really PC....PATRIOTICALLY CORRECT!!!!)
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To: Morgana

Death panels.


3 posted on 07/02/2017 12:12:09 PM PDT by TXBlair (We will not forget Benghazi.)
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To: Morgana

Killing them in the womb is one step removed from killing them outside the womb. Progressive government is pure evil.


4 posted on 07/02/2017 12:14:53 PM PDT by justa-hairyape (The user name is sarcastic. Although at times it may not appear that way.)
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To: Morgana

Single payer, must save money and the powers that be know what’s good for you


5 posted on 07/02/2017 12:28:54 PM PDT by McGavin999
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To: Morgana

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.


6 posted on 07/02/2017 12:30:36 PM PDT by Yaelle
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To: justa-hairyape
Killing them in the womb is one step removed from killing them outside the womb.

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.

7 posted on 07/02/2017 12:33:54 PM PDT by InABunkerUnderSF (Proudly deplorable since 2016.)
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To: BykrBayb; little jeremiah; cpforlife.org

Terris list ping

life ping

thanks


8 posted on 07/02/2017 12:34:19 PM PDT by Morgana ( Always a bit of truth in dark humor.)
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To: Morgana

Britain’s national suicide continues and this child is just another victim.


9 posted on 07/02/2017 2:08:12 PM PDT by Uncle Sam 911
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To: JBW1949

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.


10 posted on 07/02/2017 3:57:28 PM PDT by nhbob1
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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...


11 posted on 07/02/2017 4:01:16 PM PDT by JBW1949 (I'm really PC....PATRIOTICALLY CORRECT!!!!)
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Where the hell is the “Royal” family on all this?????


12 posted on 07/02/2017 4:02:57 PM PDT by JBW1949 (I'm really PC....PATRIOTICALLY CORRECT!!!!)
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To: Morgana
This is why we need to fight single payer...if your child is not perfect...I'm sorry we won't help him get better. Old people will be killed by 'I', too...

Say no to socialize medicine....

13 posted on 07/02/2017 4:48:45 PM PDT by Deplorable American1776 (Proud to be a DeplorableAmerican with a Deplorable Family...even the dog is DEPLORABLE :-))
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To: Morgana

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!


14 posted on 07/02/2017 4:59:34 PM PDT by Bellflower (Who dares believe Jesus?)
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To: JBW1949

I wonder that too...what if it was Prince George who was ‘terminal’. I bet they would allow him to go to the US...


15 posted on 07/02/2017 5:14:13 PM PDT by Deplorable American1776 (Proud to be a DeplorableAmerican with a Deplorable Family...even the dog is DEPLORABLE :-))
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To: Morgana
This is what we've come to...
allowing those playing God to decide how and when our children will die
16 posted on 07/02/2017 5:14:40 PM PDT by novemberslady
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To: Morgana; Ohioan from Florida; 8mmMauser; BykrBayb; T'wit; wagglebee; Alamo-Girl; AlwaysFree; ...
How can human beings be so heartless.


17 posted on 07/02/2017 5:55:37 PM PDT by little jeremiah (Half the truth is often a great lie. B. Franklin)
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To: Morgana

Let’s kill children who are sick..Death panels should not be the one who decide who lives and who die.


18 posted on 07/02/2017 6:31:18 PM PDT by ConservaTeen (Islam is Not the Religion of Peace, but The religion of Pedophilia...)
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To: little jeremiah

“How can human beings be so heartless.”

And why are so many heartless people in charge of doing such heartless things?


19 posted on 07/02/2017 8:16:37 PM PDT by Sun (Pray that God sends us good leaders. Please say a prayer now.)
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To: JBW1949
UK....the country of DEATH.

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??!

20 posted on 07/02/2017 8:23:29 PM PDT by Jane Long (Praise God, from whom ALL blessings flow.)
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