Posted on 04/24/2018 10:12:22 AM PDT by Morgana
We are deeply concerned and outraged by the treatment and care offered to Alfie Evans. Wanting to withdraw treatment so that he will die, the medical
authorities have taken Alfie to the High Court. At that point, and as a result of the hospital’s court action, the parents were stripped of their right to be decision makers for their beloved child. They could only advise the Court and look on as the High Court made decisions for Alfie.
The High Court decided that it was in the “Best Interests “ of Alfie to die and duly authorized the withdrawal of treatment. As a result the parents are being tortured as they watch the hospital take actions expected to lead to his death.
Despite a viable alternative being available (namely transfer by air ambulance for further assessment to a specialist hospital in Rome), the hospital and doctors
responsible for his care insists that he remains under their care and on a pathway towards death. While he now has some oxygen and some fluid this has taken huge effort to obtain for him. He is offered sedation although (we understand) this has not been given at present. Sedation (if given) would mean that he would develop respiratory failure and die even more quickly.
Actions such as these have now brought the Alder Hey Hospital to worldwide attention and by extension bring our whole profession into disrepute.
Medical tyranny must stop. Poor Alfie must not be killed in this way. We demand that the authorities to allow Alfie safe passage to Rome.
With respect we insist that with immediate effect the GMC investigate the actions of doctors providing his care. Surely the doctors should refuse to implement such a tyrannical decision and allow Alfie to go to Rome.
Dr Anthony Cole. Medical Ethics Alliance
Dr Thomas Ward
Dr Adrian Treloar
Dr Robert Hardie
Dr Josephne Venn-Treloar
Dr Carlos Augusto Casanova Guerra
We are inviting doctors to cosign this petition. If you wish to sign this statement please email secretary@medethicsalliance.org.uk
NO there is NO comparison. Teri’s husband made the decision not the state. Alfie’s loved ones have NO say in this state sponsored murder of an innocent infant.
Your memory is weak.
Teri’s ‘husband’ filed lawsuits saying “Kill her”; her parents said “Give her to us, we’ll take care of her”.
The judge in the case said “Starve her”.
And starved she was, by imperial decree of another black-robed tyrant.
Terris list ping
Pro life ping
Excuse me, but as the closest relative to Teri, Michael had every right to make that decision. This situation with Alfie and Charlie has the state making the decision without input from anyone who loves him. Can you see the difference now, or shall I type slower so that you can keep up?
Nobody has a right to have someone starved to death.
Do that to a dog and you go to prison.
You apparently love death as much as Michael Schiavo, Judge Greer, and the NHS.
“You apparently love death as much as Michael Schiavo, Judge Greer, and the NHS.”
How silly, nothing left so accuse me of “loving death?” Yawn.
No where did I say that I agreed with Michael, I just said he had the right to make that decision.
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