If you live in the USA, this has Terri Schiavo-energy all around. It’s different, I know. Terri was alive and braindead. This infant is gonna die. The court is sparing the infant pain.
But why would you keep a child alive to suffer? It’s like Terri in that the parents refuse to think about anyone other than themselves. That’s just cruel / terrible / bad.
This has happened a couple times in the UK. It’s a lot different than the USA for a few reasons, one being the NHS isn’t gonna waste money on someone who has like a .0001% chance of recovery (and why should they?).
These decisions aren’t about the cost of care, they’re about the interests of the individual and, in this case, not prolonging suffering unnecessarily.
This issue is coming up that it won’t be NHS resources being used because the baby will be in Italy using a Technically Private hospital, in Italy. There isn’t a good reason to deny that, especially when the baby has Italian citizenship.
There is very good reason to deny it when it will only prolong suffering. That a fascist government has hopped on a Christo-fascist bandwagon is irrelevant. Her condition is incurable and she is suffering.
Non-Fox report here: https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2023/nov/12/indi-gregory-critically-ill-baby-girl-removed-from-life-support
and here: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-derbyshire-67378132
There is no reason to assume the child must be suffering. People with access to palliative care usually are not suffering, even if they have a terminal illness.
I’m not assuming anything. That is the basis of the medics’ decision and the court’s ruling.
If her doctors are unable to manage pain then her parents should be allowed to find doctors who can.
She isn’t the first child with this disease, after all. And withdrawal of support is certainly not standard of care for patients like her.
So the baby should die in part… Because of politics? The rest of what you have is fair but really?
No. The baby should not be forced to suffer because of politics.
People with ALS also have a terminal condition that requires life support. Maybe the NHS will start removing their ventilators too, to spare them further suffering.