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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]The facts of this baby's case.  This was a child welfare fight.   The doctors say they do not know if Charlie can feel pain. He cannot see, he cannot hear, he cannot move, he cannot make a noise.  He has progressive muscle weakness and brain damage, and is on life support (ventilator to breath and feeding tube.)

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/0/charlie-gard-mitochondrial-disease-suffers-legal-battle/

[quote][b]Why was there a legal fight?[/b]

Charlie's parents wanted to take him to see specialists in the USA, who had offered an experimental therapy called nucleoside.

A crowdfunding page was set up in January to help finance the therapy.

But doctors at GOSH concluded that the experimental treatment, [b]which is not designed to be curative[/b], would not improve Charlie’s quality of life.

[b]When parents do not agree about a child’s future treatment, it is standard legal process to ask the courts to make a decision. This is what happened in Charlie’s case.[/b]

What were the stages of the legal battle?

March 3: Great Ormond Street bosses asked Mr Justice Francis to rule that life support treatment should stop.

The judge was told that Charlie could only breathe through a ventilator and was fed through a tube.

April 11: Mr Justice Francis said doctors could stop providing life-support treatment after analysing the case at a hearing in the [b]Family Division of the High Court [/b]in London

He concluded that life-support treatment should end and said [b]a move to a palliative care regime would be in Charlie's best interests[/b].

May 3: Charlie's parents then asked Court of Appeal judges to consider the case.

May 23: After analysing the case, [b]three Court of Appeal judges dismissed the couple's appea[/b]l two days later.

June 8: Charlie's parents then [b]lost their fight in the Supreme Court.[/b] Charlie's mother broke down in tears and screamed as justices announced their decision and was led from the court by lawyers.

June 20:  [b]Judges in the European Court of Human Rights [/b]started to analyse the case after lawyers representing Charlie's parents make written submissions.

A European Court of Human Rights spokeswoman said the case would get "priority". "In light of the exceptional circumstances of this case, the court has already accorded it priority and will treat the application with the utmost urgency," she added.

June 27: On Tuesday, European court judges refused to intervene. A Great Ormond Street spokeswoman said the European Court decision marked "the end" of a "difficult process".

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In other words, the government took the child from the parents. Is this something you want? Think hard about it.[/quote]

don't be ridiculous, the government takes children from the parents all the time in the US when the parents are unable to properly care for them and the kids may be in danger. even for medical care, if you have a child with a serious illness and the parents refuse treatment, for religious reasons or other reasons, often judges end up making decisions.  this happens in the USA.  people who talk about the UK case simply do not know the case, the child is already brain dead, can't breath, can't swallow, can't move anything, his muscles are gone, is dying and there is no cure and no treatment.  even the so called US treatment is something that would not help even if it worked and is not a real cure.  I understand the parents but the reality is that the child is dying.

I also find disgusting that OP talks about this tragedy just to score a political point. if anything, these parents were lucky they are in the UK where a universal health care system threated their terminal child since birth doing anything possible and incurring $$$$$$$$$$ expenses at no cost to the parents.     then a private doctor in the US was ready to "treat" the child (with no real hope of even improving his condition) but only for millions of dollars cash........ yes, sure, the US system is so much better. nope! [/quote]

I don't think in the US parentsl rights could be interfered with because the parents wanted *more* treatment. I don't know much about UK family law but this case would have a different outcome here. [/quote]

Every hospital in the country has an ethics committee to decide whether experimental or otherwise unusual treatment should be rendered.  The parents would not have an unfettered right to seek futile treatment.[/quote]

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