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Despite the fact that this will come at no cost to the UK government or the hospital, they are legally forcing the family to stay in the UK, where they will be denied medical care because the government decided that it was not worth the effort to keep the boy alive. Even worse, the hospital has not been feeding the child while he is under their care, which is now court mandated.
originally posted by: notsure1
originally posted by: DBCowboy
a reply to: notsure1
Parental rights do not exist in some countries.
The state is responsible for the life and death of your child if it is what the state decides.
All the more reason to love America...
originally posted by: DBCowboy
originally posted by: notsure1
originally posted by: DBCowboy
a reply to: notsure1
Parental rights do not exist in some countries.
The state is responsible for the life and death of your child if it is what the state decides.
All the more reason to love America...
There are too many here already that are willing to cede parental rights to the authority of the state.
originally posted by: notsure1
originally posted by: DBCowboy
originally posted by: notsure1
originally posted by: DBCowboy
a reply to: notsure1
Parental rights do not exist in some countries.
The state is responsible for the life and death of your child if it is what the state decides.
All the more reason to love America...
There are too many here already that are willing to cede parental rights to the authority of the state.
its like they want to be told whats best for them..
originally posted by: Peacetime
a reply to: notsure1
Don't you find it rather repulsive that the parents of this child are willing to let it be a guinea pig at the hands of the Vatican? That is a very unsettling notion to me. How selfish as a parent do you have to be to insist their child be left alive to suffer through an incurable disease?
Why do people the world over insist that a person be left alive when it is obvious they will never have a quality life? This baby is 2 years old. Let's be generous and say he can live for 2 more years. What will HIS quality of life be? Remember too that he will have no comprehension of why he feels so bad all the time. Four years of sickness, and THEN he dies.
How heartless do people have to be to allow that to happen? Would he feel love from his parents? Im sure he would. But he will die knowing, as much as a 4 year old can, that the love he felt didnt make him better and couldnt stop him from dying.
Sorry, but if you ask me that not only is a fckd up way to live out 4 years, but the parents should be ashamed of themselves for being so self-involved that they couldn't see how it effected their own chilld.
Whom they claim to love.
Yes, I know I'm being pragmatic. But when you let your emotions take over to the point where you can't see the reality of a situation anymore............you end up hurting the last person you wanted to.