Pray For Baby Charlotte
Posted on February 25, 2006
Hat Tip: Pro-Life Blogs
Is this the direction America is headed? Is this where the ACLU, and the “right to die” folks will take us? In England, a judge has ruled for doctors to withold life support from a two-year old, brain damaged child, Charlotte Wyatt. This is all in despite of the parents’ wishes. The parents have no say so in the life of their child. They are asking for our prayers. I think that is the least we can do.
The parents of Charlotte Wyatt have been told that doctors are to be allowed to let their profoundly ill baby daughter die if they feel it is in her best interests. A High Court judge yesterday lifted a previous ruling that she should always be resuscitated, on the grounds that the two-year-old was now on a “downward rather than an upward trend”.
Mr Justice Hedley heard an emergency application from doctors treating her that she had developed an aggressive chest infection and was unlikely to survive any moves to keep her alive.“Medical evidence speaks with one voice, that ventilation simply will not achieve the end for which no doubt the parents would wish,” he said. Charlotte’s condition was said to be “deteriorating” last night. Her mother, Debbie, 24, from Portsmouth, still believes that if her daughter were ventilated she would recover.
But Mr Justice Hedley said there had been a “very significant deterioration in Charlotte’s condition”. It is the fifth time he has had to make a ruling about Charlotte’s treatment.
Doctors at St Mary’s Hospital, Portsmouth, had previously argued that her life was so intolerable that if her condition worsened they should be allowed to withhold treatment. Charlotte suffers from severe lung, brain and kidney damage. But her condition improved so much that last October the judge removed a ruling allowing doctors to let her die.
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From Wiki News
“Sun Hudson, a six-month old Texas baby died last week when health care providers at Texas Children’s Hospital in Houston, Texas removed his life support system over the objections of his mother. The action was authorized under the 1999 Futile Care Law which was signed into law by then-Gov. George W. Bush.”
It has already happen a number of times in the United States.
“Is this the direction America is headed? Is this where the ACLU, and the “right to die” folks will take us?
Why would the ACLU argue for state to be able to kill?