Posted on 06/29/2017 6:06:37 PM PDT by Hojczyk
A European court has ruled that the parents of a critically ill baby cannot privately pay for him to go to the United States for “experimental treatment”, and the child must stay in a British hospital to “die with dignity”. The parents of 10-month-old Charlie Gard are reported to be “utterly distraught” after the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) denied them a final effort to save their dying son.
After losing a battle in the UK’s Supreme Court, they had appealed to the court in France to fight the decision of British doctors at Great Ormond Street Children’s Hospital, who argued the baby could not be saved in the U.S. and must “die with dignity”.
Chris Gard, 32, and Connie Yates, 31, had raised more than £1.3 million to take Charlie to the U.S. for partially untested, “experimental” treatment, which they claim could save his life.
Britain has a socialised healthcare system, and despite the fact his parents raised private funds for treatment, the courts could have acted as what some in U.S. politicians call a “death panel”, decided who is and who is not worth saving.
“We strongly feel as his parents that Charlie should get a chance to try these medications. He literally has nothing to lose but potentially a healthier, happier life to gain,” the mother wrote on a crowd-funding page.
(Excerpt) Read more at breitbart.com ...
All your babies are belong to us, your government.
We are now your masters. Will that be forehead? Or right hand?
crap care here you are invaluable as a healthy baby to 14 years, from 14 to 40 you are valuable to the state after 40 you become invaluable again and end up like charlie
Am I hearing this correctly. Someone has the means and the government is preventing them from trying. That would be it for me. I will be the one carrying the bodies of politicians through the gates hell wearing a big smile.
Trump should send one of his planes over and bring them here
It fits in with their strong euthanasia push. Outsiders decide which lives have value.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2017/01/28/panel-clears-dutch-doctor-asked-family-hold-patient-carried/
The main problem with western civ right now is that the hospital is not surrounded by angry people putting the fear of god into the people running the place to do the right thing.
Not an unruly mob, but a large group of very pissed off people who are very well organized who are each putting their names and reputations on the line saying, DO THE RIGHT THING!
Welcome to socialized medicine..what the left wants to bring to America so they can decide who lives and who dies..the commie media will never report this story because it shows exactly why socialized medicine is a failure
“Someone has the means and the government is preventing them from trying.”
No, you’re reading it correctly.
See: Florida then-Governor Jeb Bush (Yes, THAT Jeb Bush!) v. Terri Schaivo.
Her PARENTS were MORE than willing to pay for her life-long care, but her husband (and his new wife) got to pull the plug on her and let her die of STARVATION & DEHYDRATION - WITH THE STATE’S SANCTION!
WE Should not spend anymore money defending these people ...there sick
Trump plane and life support machines and human chain of Seals and pro-lifers.
I’ve been following this couple and their plight with their baby.......the reason they are loosing all their court cases is because the child is in the final stages of death.....
Feel bad for the parents who can’t see the obvious so many have tried to reach them with....very sad thing when parents hold on too tightly.
The hospital won’t even let the parents take him home to die?
They just didn't want to be shown up by us so a little boy had to die.
The child is dying if not dead already. His brain is already decayed and other parts of his body in the stages of death.....and has been increasingly so for some time...the desease he has is following the normal path that it always does. There is no cure.
They’ve been thru every court possible but the parents just can’t see the obvious...very sad case.
It’s not the innocent baby who needs to die.....it’s....
NO KIDDING! I WISH HE WOULD!
...and they shouldn’t....hospital is doing the right thing here regarding this child.
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