Charlie Gard granted permanent resident status in US 'so he can get medical treatment he needs'

Telegraph ^ | July 18, 2017 | Leon Watson

[Morgana]

The on-going political row over the treatment of Charlie Gard took a new turn today as it emerged US lawmakers have granted the terminally-ill 11-month-old permanent resident status to allow him to fly to America for treatment.

Congress passed the amendment that it is reported could mean Charlie's parents, who have been mired in a battle with British doctors, to take him to the US without needing their permission.

Jeff Fortenberry, Republican U.S. Representative for Nebraska, tweeted:

[Morgana]

MORE WINNING

time to prove them wrong.

[Morgana]

He’s coming to America!

[lee martell]

That’s all fine and good, but I don’t think the British system will allow the baby to be transported. They don’t want to be shown up by any Yanks.

[surroundedbyblue]

I pray this baby receives treatment. Please God grant him healing. And may the enemies of life be scattered and confounded.

[Morgana]

Oh wait they would dare do what Iran did and hold an American citizen hostage?

Oh it’s on now!

[Tennessee Nana]

Charlie is not an American citizen...

hes a Registered Alien...he’ll get a “green card” which means he can stay indefinitely...as long as it takes etc...

[SandRat]

COME ON Charlie!!!

All of tour American (YANK), Aunts, Uncles, Cousins, GranMoms and GranPas are Praying for you.

[conservative98]

But what about the wall, Obamacare and taxes?

[Salvation]

Thanks be to God.

[proud American in Canada]

I’m glad for him and for his parents; America to the rescue again. :) I hope he lives a long and happy life.

I do have some reservations, though, about the precedent this will set. Why wouldn’t a temporary visa work? Or some sort of guest status?

Perhaps the treatment takes longer than some sort of visa would extend? I remember having to go to see authorities in Canada to extend my student visa after I met my husband. :)

[Republic_Venom]

Why Charlie? There are thousands of children like him who need US medical intervention. I don’t get it.

[b4me]

I’d like to see Charlie receive the best possible care.

I also have concern that granting permanent resident status this time could be used to create problems down the road.

[Mears]

“Why Charlie? There are thousands of children like him who need US medical intervention. I don’t get it.”

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Simple.the parents publicized it and publicly raised funds. The press heard about it and the rest is history.

Not quite fair,is it?

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[BykrBayb]

Oh, my goodness! I have to rush off to yet another doctor appointment, so I can't read this until later, but it's obviously BIG! Thanks for keeping us up to speed, Morgana.

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[righttackle44]

Thank God.

[conservativejoy]

The traitors not voting to Repeal O’care put all of us in danger of the type of insanity threatening Charlie Gard’s life. We must get government out of the role of making decisions about our healthcare.

[Redwood71]

There are two issues here. And they are not the love of a child or the laws by the governing country.

One is that there is no reason to say that the “cure” they are using is going to even help. It is an experimental drug, not a cure set up by our AMA or FDA. They don’t know if it will even work. So even though this illness is being called terminal, what do they have to lose?

But that leads us to the second issue, quality of life. This phrase has not been in the forefront of the issue in a way that considers it a part of it. We have been told the child already has brain damage. Okay, how much? Will this experimental cure do anything about that? Probably not. Destroyed cells normally do not regenerate. So if this cure actually works, what type of life will, or can, or have the ability to consider, possibly have?

Life is fragile, but sometimes death is peace. Why hurt for a few years? This needs to be weighed and decided if just having life is worth living? Or if death is the answer to the pain of no life whatsoever or one of pain and anguish. Hell of a choice, huh?

rwood

[ichabod1]

True that - it’s not like we don’t have plenty of “mercy killings” by starvation and dehydration of lebensunswerteleben here in the good old USA.

[jmaroneps37]

We have to continue to pray for this innocent baby so he can get away from the monsters in England.

[Will88]

Why Charlie? There are thousands of children like him who need US medical intervention. I don’t get it.

Because he has a condition fewer than twenty people in the world have and the leading physician and researcher for that condition is in the US (the doctor who went to the UK to examine Charlie).