Kadin
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7/24/17 Update:
I just don't understand how this type of decision can be made by a court system (from doctors recommendations) and his parents not allowed to do what they want. I live in the US so I'm pretty uneducated on the healthcare system in the UK but this just seems so terrible.
Hopefully this isn't old, I searched a good bit before posting.
More at the WP story here.
update: The parents have ended their legal fight so it doesn't look like anything else will happen
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-40708343
I just don't understand how this type of decision can be made by a court system (from doctors recommendations) and his parents not allowed to do what they want. I live in the US so I'm pretty uneducated on the healthcare system in the UK but this just seems so terrible.
Hopefully this isn't old, I searched a good bit before posting.
For months and months, Charlie Gard's parents have been fighting for his life.
The 10-month-old has a rare genetic condition and brain damage that has robbed him of his ability to move his arms and legs, eat or breathe on his own. He has been connected to machines to help keep him alive.
After a heartbreaking court battle, Charlie's parents must now let him go.
The European Court of Human Rights declined to hear the case Tuesday, upholding previous court rulings to let Charlie die. Doctors at a British hospital had said that nothing more could be done. Charlie's parents had said there was an experimental treatment in the United States they had not yet tried. But the courts agreed that Chris Gard and Connie Yates must say goodbye to their son.
The parents told the Daily Mail that their son's life support will be disconnected Friday but that he is not permitted to leave Great Ormond Street Hospital for Children in London, meaning he cannot die at home.
”We know what day our son is going to die and we don't even get any say in what happens to him," Gard recently said through tears, according to the tabloid.
More at the WP story here.