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BykrBayb or Little Jeremiah
time to prove them wrong.
He’s coming to America!
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.
I pray this baby receives treatment. Please God grant him healing. And may the enemies of life be scattered and confounded.
COME ON Charlie!!!
All of tour American (YANK), Aunts, Uncles, Cousins, GranMoms and GranPas are Praying for you.
But what about the wall, Obamacare and taxes?
Thanks be to God.
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. :)
Why Charlie? There are thousands of children like him who need US medical intervention. I don’t get it.
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.
Thank God.
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.
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
We have to continue to pray for this innocent baby so he can get away from the monsters in England.
Don’t care so long as NO US TAXPAYER MONEY spent on this kid. Not our problem. AND THIS IS A DISTRACTION FROM REPEALING OBAMACARE, FIXING TAXES, BUILDING THE WALL.
fork over the money...
God bless you all, but referring to this process as “the medical treatment he NEEDS” mis-states the facts.
Nobody NEEDS highly controversial experimental treatment.
People who willingly suffer damage or give up their lives in the hope that some course of action will advance medical science are very admirable. But no one with an incurable and poorly understood disease is OBLIGED to do that.
The wish of the family to offer up their child for this purpose is also admirable.
But, I can tell you after 45 years of medical practice, a lot of it focused on experimental treatment in desperate situations, EVERYONE who is told “there may be a 1/1 000 000 chance this could help” believes with stone-cold certainty that they are that one in a million.
If these experimental treatments were either beneficial or harmless, that would be one thing. But that is far from the case.
Hippocrates nailed it:
Life is Short, but the Art, long
The occasion fleeting
Experimentation dangerous
And decision difficult.
There seems to be a serious misconception. The alternatives are not a) stay in Britain and die or b) be cured in the US.
Even Dr. Mirano admits there is NO cure, only the SLIGHT possibility of a “significant” improvement, whatever that may be. Originally he put the probability at 10 %. Then, miracolously, it was up to 56 % (!?!) for no apparent reason. Neither he nor anyone else has ever tried the treatment he suggests for the specific kind of mitrochondrial desease that Charlie has, not even on mice or lab rats.
Plus, Dr. Mirano had not even seen the child when he gave those statements. It remains to be seen whether he still thinks he can help Charlie now that he`s been to London.
Finally, please remember that even Charlie`s parents have “acknowledged and accepted that the quality of life that Charlie has at present is not worth sustaining”