Posted on 11/29/2023 3:31:13 PM PST by nickcarraway
London-based Christian Legal Centre behind a number of end-of-life court cases ‘prolonging suffering’, doctors say
Medics treating critically ill babies are quitting their jobs owing to “considerable moral distress” caused by a rightwing Christian group behind a series of end-of-life court cases, the Guardian has been told.
Senior doctors claimed the behaviour of some evangelical campaigners was “prolonging the suffering” of seriously ill infants. They accused them of “selling falsehoods and lies” to families and of using legal tactics condemned by judges.
One paediatric intensive care consultant described how he was pelted with eggs and “barraged” inside a hospital during protests over the case of Alfie Evans, a toddler whose life support was removed after a high-profile court battle in 2018.
He said: “These groups are complicit in prolonging suffering and not allowing for a good death, which makes someone’s death longer and more painful than it needs to be. That’s what keeps us awake at night.”
A court of appeal judge this month expressed “profound concern” about the use of “manipulative litigation tactics” in the case of Indi Gregory, a critically-ill baby girl who died on 13 November after a legal battle over her treatment.
It was the latest in a series of high-profile end-of-life cases brought by the campaign group Christian Legal Centre (CLC), which also represented the parents of Charlie Gard, Alfie Evans and Archie Battersbee.
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The Guardian is “The Guardian” of killing children in National Health Service hospitals and the bloody war in Ukraine.
I guess they’re consistent in support death I’ll say that much for them.
The next POTUS should impose sanctions on the NHS until the killing of children like Alfie Evans and Indi Gregory ends.
How can the president of the U.S. impose sanctions on the NHS?
Who are these doctors to play God and to decide what constitutes a good death?
If a life is sacred enough to save, it’s sacred enough to keep. Unless the health care providers have been in that situation personally, they don’t know how the patient feels. The longest a “hopeless” life was held onto in the NICU was done by a doctor who’d been a “hopeless” case in ER as a teenager, which I discovered when I called her on her life prolonging treatments. As a Christian, I also know that God can raise the dead.
The US sanctions all kinds of countries from Egypt to the obvious ones Cuba for example not to mention Iran, China and Russia, Russia, Russia.
So let the next POTUS address this.
If it happened there ought to be cellphone video of it.
“Medics treating critically ill babies are quitting their jobs...” Yeah, it is real tough when you just can’t kill critically ill babies willy nilly.
Wow, such suffering for these medics. Perhaps consider the euthenasia you push for these patients.
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