Posted on 07/24/2017 7:03:34 AM PDT by MoraBlack
Charlie Gard will be allowed to die after his parents today made the heartbreaking decision to let him 'slip away'.
Chris Gard and Connie Yates arrived at the High Court in tears as they ended a campaign to save his life that has touched millions around the world.
They have battled for six months for their beloved 11-month-old son to be flown to the US for pioneering drugs to treat his rare strain of mitochondrial disease.
But they have now decided to let him die clearly believing that Great Ormond Street's refusal to let him travel to a New York hospital had cost him his chance.
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The Republicans in Congress...bah! Every single member of Congress on both sides is bought and paid for by their big donors. Not a single one of them represents us. Not one.
Yeah..we are seeing it more and more since we are in power.
Useless
Except for holding line on scalia
https://www.statnews.com/2016/02/11/mitochondrial-disease-therapies/
I want the U.S. to offer “refugee” status to the parents, and an executive/congressional arranged citizenship. Then, from the American Embassy with the U.S. two newest citizens on hand, demand the release of the AMERICAN child to his parents.
A case of too late...cant do anything
Je Suis Charlie.
Charlie Gard pain and indignation bump
Big effing deal about the latest brain scan. The constant delays by the hospital and courts cost that baby any chance he might have had. If the parents were FREE to seek treatment for Charlie elsewhere, who knows what the outcome might have been. There are no excuses for the hospital and court actions to remove custody of Charlie from his obviously loving parents. None.
The devastating brain scan was according to the GOSH plan. Charlie’s brain scan in March showed nothing devastating at all. No problem for GOSH; they just had to prevent Charlie from getting treatment in the US until such time as it could no longer help.
They succeeded.
I wish Charlie’s parents would make Charlie’s complete medical record public. If they are are willing and able to do that. If they are willing and unable, I’d like to know that, too. As well as why.
This would be a good time for a Trump tweet.
So much for benevolent socialism and benevolent socialized medicine with its Death Panels AKA single payer AKA mindless government force taking charge of your healthcare which government doesnt nor can care anything about. Government only cares about power and force.
Socialized medicine. All that means is government instead of you in control of your healthcare. Socialism. All that means is soft fascist government oppression, robbing you of your God-given freedoms. Benevolent socialism is an oxymoron like benevolent fascism.
The answer to the age-old misery of government oppression is always God-given individual freedom. The answer to healthcare run by the government (AKA DMV healthcare) is healthcare run by the voluntary cooperation between patients and their doctors in the market economy free from government interference which produces the highest quality, most available, and lowest cost healthcare in the world.
Note: In the United States, healthcare run by the federal government is not only oppressive, disastrous, and deadly, it is illegal because it is unconstitutional.
Thank you parents of Charlie Gard for fighting the good fight against the tyranny of the UK/European courts.
Yes we must pray and make sure his life has not been in vain.
That is almost certainly coming. Gives more force to NUKING Obamacare and hopefully will help the effort to GET GOVERNMENT COMPLETELY OUT OF HEALTHCARE.
We couldn't call them "Subjects" if they were.
The Queen of England, The Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, the politicians of all political stripes throughout Great Britain and the British people, everyone of them should hang their heads in shame and pray to Lord, God Almighty to forgive them for Politically Killing innocent baby Charlie Gard!!!
Yes...indeed, Baby Charlie may have been destined to pass on to heaven...but not before a fierce fight for his right to live on. Only his birth parents have the right to decide his fate...not some “Big Brother” low life, left-wing, scum & vermin filled Judges of Death Panels!!! God bless, you Charlie & your Mom & Dad!!! God & every Angel in Heaven awaits your shinning, stunning and forever loving arrival in paradise!!! Church bells & Worshipers of life, throughout the entire world will celebrate your short life among us, beautiful child, a gift to the world from your Mom & Dad!!! Rest In Peace, son of our Lord!!!
I'd venture that they can't.
They don't own the records, The Crown does.
Yup - there is no other way to do it without bankrupting the government.
Unmentioned in all of this is the remarkable advances in regrowing brain tissue, both white and gray brain matter.
The death panels will be populated by the same kind of people who denied 401(c) status to Tea Party groups, while fast tracking ultra-liberal groups.
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