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This news is quite upsetting - The Gard family in the U.K. have a child with a rare disease.  Doctors there say there is nothing they can do to help him.  https://www.liveaction.org/news/president-trump-help-charlie-gard/

However, there are some doctors in America who have an experimental procedure that may be able to help or even cure the boy.

Now it would seem that the logical thing to do, would be to let the parents take their boy to America to try the new treatment.  BUT, the hospital will not allow it.  The parents turned to the EU court system, as the UK is still in the EU right now, and were refused there too.

So now the situation is, the parents have been able to raise over 1,000,000usd to go to the U.S. and try to save their boy's life, but the government in the UK and Europe will not allow it.

There have been cases of the State taking custody of children away from parents who will not do medical procedures that may save their child's life.  One notable example is in the case of Jehovah Witnesses, who, for some religious reason, refuse blood transfusions.  While I understand that is a very sensitive issue, whether their faith should be respected, or the child's life saved, I favor the side of saving the child's life.

Here tho, the parents want to save the child's life, and the government is saying that they can not do so.  Socialized medicine is not good at all, in my opinion.  To me, this type of "Death Panel" mentality is very, very troubling.  I mean, once it becomes accepted that the govt. can say who dies and who stays alive, it just may be....   may be....                                       

Your turn next!!!

What is your take on the situation?



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It seems modern precedents are being set for courts to decide who lives or dies.  



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Ed Sutton wrote:

It seems modern precedents are being set for courts to decide who lives or dies.  

 this has been the case in the US for quite some time .... follow the children that parents did not want chemo.  the courts took over and ruled that they must 

have the chemo even though the parents and child refused...  children were taken away and given the chemo.  ...  most have died since.



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nb, there is one huge difference.

The courts in the past justified what they did on the premise that they were trying to save the life of the child, and that the parents were being irresponsible.

In this case tho, the courts are justifying what they are doing on the premise that they have the right to PREVENT the parents from trying to save the life of the child.

I saw today in the news that little Charlie's parents went to some court thing there in the UK on this, and walked out of it, as the court was being so belligerent on insisting that the family must allow Charlie to die.



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I see your point...  taking control a step further...

it is really sad... if it were me, I'd run



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How could you "run" when your baby is hooked up to machines, and inside a hospital?

He is basically a prisoner of the State.



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