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Charlie Gard Hospital Slams ‘World Where Only Parents Decide for Children’
LifeSite News ^ | 7/19/17 | Claire Chretien

Posted on 07/19/2017 7:32:10 PM PDT by marshmallow

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To: marshmallow

If the parents were paying the bills for this child’s treatment, wouldn’t this have been over long ago?

Who pays effects the decision making, on both sides.


21 posted on 07/19/2017 8:11:27 PM PDT by Haiku Guy (eliminate perverse incentives)
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To: LurkedLongEnough

bttt


22 posted on 07/19/2017 8:13:02 PM PDT by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is either satire or opinion. Or both.)
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To: marshmallow

We’ve allowed ourselves to be browbeaten into not even questioning suffering the degenerate totalitarians to live and this is what we get.

Only the UK citizens are guilty in this specific case, but we’ve all of us, no matter where we live, are also guilty for allowing exactly the same mindset to flourish among us.


23 posted on 07/19/2017 8:15:33 PM PDT by Grimmy (equivocation is but the first step along the road to capitulation)
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To: marshmallow

I am not an attorney or family law expert, but my understanding is that up until recently, parents had broad authority to directly the upbringing of their own minor children. I believe that the UN convention on the rights of the child may be in conflict with this concept. Recently, the government of Ontario Canada passed a bill while omits the moral/religious training of a child as a recognized right of the child’s parents, and which allows the State to intervene if parents will not recognize their child’s gender identity as different from biological sex. So we are moving away from the concept of the state only intervening to remove a child from a dangerous or criminal environment or if the parents do not provide food/clothing/shelter/education, to the notion of the state having a superior right to the parents in many other areas.


24 posted on 07/19/2017 8:23:59 PM PDT by SecAmndmt (Arm yourselves!)
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To: marshmallow
The government might have some argument that the child does not "belong" to the parents if the parents were refusing medical treatment to save his life for some reason.

But the converse argument that the child does belong to the government when the government decides that it is the best interest of the government that the child die is the height of perversity. In a just society, the government promoting that would be tossed aside and its functionaries in this matter would be summarily tried for crimes against humanity.

But ownership of the individual by the state is what Socialists like Hillary and Obama desire for us and our medical care. And that is the world in which "our" Republicans submissively wet themselves when the chance to fight was put before them.

25 posted on 07/19/2017 8:32:57 PM PDT by KarlInOhio (The Whig Party died when it fled the great fight of its century. Ditto for the Republicans now.)
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To: marshmallow

Tyrants.


26 posted on 07/19/2017 9:11:35 PM PDT by Ciexyz (I'm conservative & traditionalist.)
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What arrogant a**h*l*s. Typical smarmy elitist pseudo intellectual socialists. Disgusting. Personally, I think the odds of nucleoside replacement therapy to work in this case are very, very slim. Nonetheless, the parents raised the money, and there are trying to save their child - not harm him. This is not about preventing pain and suffering, as the arrogant administrators at Not-so-great Ormond Street hospital are claiming. They are perfectly fine with letting him sit there on life support until the judge rules - even though the child could have already been receiving treatments here - or even there had they let the American team come in to administer it. This is about their arrogance and ‘don't question our superior wisdom and power - we're in charge’ attitudes.
27 posted on 07/19/2017 9:18:01 PM PDT by neverevergiveup
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To: marshmallow

Hmmmmm . . . ?

Single payer system,

What could possibly go wrong?


28 posted on 07/19/2017 9:24:09 PM PDT by fella ("As it was before Noah so shall it be again,")
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To: marshmallow

Whether its american schools, or UK healthcare, liberals know whats best for YOUR children, not you.


29 posted on 07/19/2017 9:40:34 PM PDT by Cubs Fan (Liberals are the most hateful, violent and intolerant people in America)
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To: marshmallow

Whether its american schools, or UK healthcare, liberals know whats best for YOUR children, not you.


30 posted on 07/19/2017 9:40:39 PM PDT by Cubs Fan (Liberals are the most hateful, violent and intolerant people in America)
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To: marshmallow; All

NO ONE must be allowed to escape the Death Panels of the Socialist Governmentbrun “Healthcare”.


31 posted on 07/19/2017 10:08:07 PM PDT by tcrlaf (They told me it could never happen in America. And then it did....)
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To: marshmallow

A Brave New World indeed.


32 posted on 07/20/2017 1:27:31 AM PDT by Mozilla (Truth Is Stranger than Fictionr)
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Death panels = Post mortem abortion...

Will politicians decided if your kids are 'help' to live? The Elites will have their kids saved, the minions will have theirs killed.

33 posted on 07/20/2017 3:07:43 AM PDT by Deplorable American1776 (Proud to be a DeplorableAmerican with a Deplorable Family...even the dog is DEPLORABLE :-))
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To: marshmallow

Thoughts of Denzel playing a dad with his child needing competent medical help....


34 posted on 07/20/2017 3:21:19 AM PDT by trebb (Where in the the hell has my country gone?)
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To: FreedomStar3028

...”A world where parents are nothing but donors is not a world I want to live in.

I do not want my children to be subject to the will of whoever says they know best.”...

This reveals the main goal of one-payer healthcare systems and that is the power over life and death. It is key to getting rid of the inconvenient, whether they be helpless babies, like Charlie, or whether it will be used to eliminate political opposition to the standard of the tyranny which allows this. As I have stated before, Orwell’s book, “1984,” is prophetic. Satan is in control of most of the world (my view). Abortion is such an evil practice and is the forerunner of preparing the world for unbelievable acts committed in the name of healthcare if governments are allowed to completely take over in that area.


35 posted on 07/20/2017 3:25:46 AM PDT by jazzlite
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To: marshmallow

The UK is farther along in its march to marxism than the USA. They are well aware that the goal of the left is to remove all parental rights and give them to the state, while making the parents keep all financial responsibility, buying diapers, paying for damage when the kid’s baseball breaks a window, etc. The real power is in the state, which usurps the right to decide if the children live or die, or “change” their sex, or have sex, or have an abortion.


36 posted on 07/20/2017 4:23:50 AM PDT by I want the USA back (Acting consistently in contradiction with one's human nature is de facto evidence of insanity.)
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To: marshmallow

My question is.. How many children have they made these decisions for and how did they end the lives of each one? I think it is genocide of the Nazi / Mengele order... Imagine a world without Special Olympics.


37 posted on 07/20/2017 6:08:50 AM PDT by momincombatboots (White Stetsons up.. let's save our country!)
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To: marshmallow; Mrs. Don-o
Charlie's case has captured the world's attention.

Little Charlie's life has exposed much evil. I'd say he has a pretty important mission in this life. No wonder he's a target.

Gard: keeper of the garden

38 posted on 07/20/2017 6:45:26 AM PDT by Ezekiel (All who mourn(ed!) the destruction of America merit the celebration of her rebirth.)
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May the Lord preserve Charlie and defend his defenders.


39 posted on 07/20/2017 7:14:12 AM PDT by Mrs. Don-o ("He shall defend the needy, He shall save the children of the poor, and crush the oppressor.")
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