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A Short Lived Respite

Stacey Lennox
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According to the parents, officials from Alder Hey proceed to court to terminate Alfie Evan's life support.

Despite reported meetings yesterday between Alder Hey Hospital staff, MEP Steven Woolfe and Alfie's parents that seemed to signal the hospital would consider allowing Alfie to be treated abroad, this was posted by his mother last night.

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The family's lawyer has sent a letter to the hospital indicating that a hospital in Milan ​is willing to offer a second medical opinion and they expect the Vatican's hospital to do the same shortly. According to the mother's Facebook post, they have company willing to transport him as required.

One really has to question the motives of Alder Hey at this point. No one looking in from the outside calls what they are doing anything other than the most severe form of healthcare rationing imaginable. Why would they so vigorously oppose another facility caring for and examining the child? Who is so certain of their own infallible judgement that they would prefer to suffocate a child rather than allow a fresh look at his condition? Terrifying.

Their drive to control the language by calling the withdrawal of life sustaining treatment 'palliative care" should also be roundly rejected. What they are proposing is as compassionate as a frustrated caregiver holding a pillow over the face of an elderly, infirm patient to relieve themselves of the burden of care.

This is not healthcare. It is quite possibly the most barbaric form of resource management we have witnessed in a developed nation. Alder Hey should absolutely release Alfie to the facilities in Italy that have extended an offer. All they are really seeking is an empty hospital bed and releasing him preserves life and opens up their scarce resources.

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Stacey Lennox
Stacey Lennox

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Additionally, anyone who researched the Gard, Haastrup or Evans cases would have known multiple hospitals offered to receive the children, the parents had/have raised sufficient funds on their own & are literally being told they can’t use the money to pursue treatment for their children. So you don’t know the basics despite your research. Lots to say with very little actual knowledge.

Stacey Lennox
Stacey Lennox

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Xanthippe
Xanthippe said: Alas, the parents aren't able to keep the child alive. They certainly can't restore him to fullness. For that, they require he medial professionals which is why those medical professionals get a say.

The medical professionals and courts act in loco parentis. It is the most barbaric form of rationing in a civilized country. It violates the very definition of palliative care according to the World Health Organization. Isaiah Haastrup reportedly struggled for several hours to breathe after his tube was removed. This action is not fundamentally different than smothering a child with a pillow.

Xanthippe
Xanthippe
BiggDoggie
BiggDoggie said: This is SICK in any civilized country. The child is the PARENTS' responsibility, not the State's. If there are any chances of my child or spouse being saved through another procedure, then I should have that option and I'll fight for it .

Alas, the parents aren't able to keep the child alive. They certainly can't restore him to fullness. For that, they require he medial professionals which is why those medical professionals get a say.

Xanthippe
Xanthippe
Mariella
Mariella said: Ms. Lennox, you have no clue into this child's medical history, but it doesn't stop you from writing a post that suggests the administrators at the hospital are conspiring to kill Alfie for the hospital bed. God help us! Conservatives value life and we don't propose that we know what is in God's plan. The Pope's tweet asked "to continue compassionately accompanying..." is not asking for a child to be kept alive artificially, but I'm pretty sure you knew that. Using a child's suffering to bring some kind of fame to yourself is the greatest sin of all. Your tone is disrespectful and antagonistic, but what makes it worse is that you have not one single fact to back it up. @ewerickson "We are all born ignorant, but one must work hard to remain stupid." Benjamin Franklin

Amen. Keep preaching the truth.

thefirstRowdyone
thefirstRowdyone

When anti-Christ people, in collusion with their government, are allowed to remove Godly morality from the nation the people of that nation are then taught and forced by government to accept the morality established by mortal man. The UK is further along in that process than the US; but the US is close behind and moving quickly! The issue in the UK with this child and family is exactly what goes along with socialized health care or sometimes referred to as universal health care; more recently here; Obamacare. It sounds great; everyone has free healthcare; but something that seems to good to be true usually is! When the government takes over healthcare the government controls the healthcare you receive; you may agree with the government's choice for your care but the choice is never yours. Proponents of government healthcare will say what is happening in the UK with this child and family could never happen in the US. The truth is that statement is made out of ignorance or an outright lie! While vacationing in south Texas three years ago my wife and I met a couple from Canada and I asked about the socialized healthcare system they have. He replied that it worked well, saying; "I needed heart by-pass surgery and was only on the waiting list for 6 months". His wife Mary corrected him to say it was just a little over 3 months. They thought that was good because they did't know there was anything better! Government may have opined that by requiring the wait time he might die and they would not have to pay the cost of surgery!

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