Baby In UK Denied Chance To Travel For Care. EU Court Rules Plug Can Be Pulled

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A baby in the UK has been denied the chance to travel to potential life saving treatment for a rare disorder. A UK and EU court has ruled a hospital can stop the parents from taking the baby home. The parents had raised money to travel to the US for experimental treatment. Hospital said the plug/life support will be pulled.

https://pjmedia.com/parenting/2017/...nied-life-by-british-health-system-eu-courts/

http://www.faithfamilyamerica.com/charlie_gard_s_parents_cry_we_can_t_even_bring_our_son_home_to_die
 

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Oversimplified; it's not that cut and dried.

The poor mite cannot breathe or swallow, is in constant pain and is little more that a laboratory specimen (though not to his parents and the Almighty, of course).

It is not just that there is no guarantee of success, but that there is virtually no hope of success, and the journey, and treatment would only add to his troubles.

The compassionate thing to do is let him rest, and journey on with dignity.

Goodbye, young Charlie, you are going to a better place.
 

I've been following this case in the newspapers and it's heartbreaking, the parents will always be left wondering 'what if'

Personally I think they should decide what happens to their own baby, they've raised the money themselves, not asked the government for help, they should take any glimmer of a chance, where there's life there's hope.....
 
The technology to see inside the womb and know what's coming is available. IMO the parents already missed the opportunity to do the right thing and choose abortion. Now all they have is the opportunity to do the halfway right thing and pull the plug.
 
"Personally I think they should decide what happens to their own baby"

But do they have the right, even as parents, to inflict more suffering on this helpless child?

And do we, as a society, have the right to let them?

In most other contexts failing to follow medical advice in respect of a child would be regarded as abhorrent.

Doctors too must remember

"Thou Shalt Not Kill, But Need Not Strive Officiously To Keep Alive".
 
I agree with Laurie and Terry123. There comes a point where it is cruel to inflict more medical treatment when there is no hope of meaningful survival, or quality of life for the child.
 

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