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Doctor knows best - 2 year old to die

February 26, 2006 |

Strange isn’t it. Doctors walk out of an execution of a convicted rapist and murder. Then there is a doctor ready to kill an infant still in the womb. But no problem, just spout “Women’s Choice.”

Then there was the concern about Dr. Drip and Kill but it was all with the consent of the individual and in the name of death with dignity. Surely it was done in the name of high medical ethics.

Don’t believe it. So here is the proof. Doctors in England won the power to withhold life support for a 2 year old despite the wishes of the parents. (HT Michelle Malkin)

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.

You don’t think there has been a long but steady push for this ability? I have a bridge for you to buy. Write and I will send a link to my paypal account so you can purchase it.

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  1. VirtueBlog » Blog Archive » Some things are so profoundly wrong . . . on February 26, 2006 3:00 pm

    [...] Right Wing Nuthouse has some excellent thoughts, as does Conservative Culture, who writes: [...]

  2. Don Surber on February 26, 2006 5:00 pm

    Baby Charlotte And The Man Who Survived A Pulled P

    They pulled the plug on Brian Paolo and … 10 days later gave his daughter away at her wedding. Money quote from the daughter:

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