Charlie Gard parents end legal fight for 'beautiful' baby

BBC ^ | July 24, 2017 | BBC

[Morgana]

A lawyer representing Chris Gard and Connie Yates told the High Court "time had run out" for the baby.

Mr Gard said it meant his "sweet, gorgeous, innocent little boy" will not reach his first birthday on 4 August.

"To let our beautiful little Charlie go" is "the hardest thing we'll ever have to do", his mother said.

Charlie's parents said they made the decision because a US doctor had told them it was now too late to give Charlie nucleoside therapy.

[Ban Draoi Marbh Draoi]

Is it wrong for me to ask God to rain down hard justice on these socialist necrophiliacs if the little guy dies?

[Salvation]

Charlie Gard: Timeline of parents’ legal battle
3 March 2017: Mr Justice Francis starts to analyse the case at a hearing in the Family Division of the High Court in London.
11 April: Mr Justice Francis says doctors can stop providing life-support treatment.
3 May: Charlie’s parents ask Court of Appeal judges to consider the case.
23 May: Three Court of Appeal judges analyse the case.
25 May: Court of Appeal judges dismiss the couple’s appeal.
8 June: Charlie’s parents lose fight in the Supreme Court.
20 June: Judges in the European Court of Human Rights start to analyse the case after lawyers representing Charlie’s parents make written submissions.
27 June: Judges in the European Court of Human Rights refuse to intervene.
3 July: The Pope and US President Donald Trump offer to intervene.
7 July: Great Ormond Street Hospital applies for a fresh hearing at the High Court.
24 July: Charlie’s parents end their legal fight to take him to the US for treatment.

[lakecumberlandvet]

No.

[Mrs. Don-o]

Yes, the high and mighty omnicompetent administrators ought to get justice, good and hard.

They ran out the clock, then got the body bag ready.

Double justice to the self-described NHS “ethicists”.

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[Mrs. Don-o]

Dying with dignity sounds so much better than being held captive and snuffed by ethicists.

[Morgana]

I see no dignity in this. Only cold and calculated murder. They wanted him good and dead and this time they won but trust me when I say this will come back to haunt them.

[jarofants]

HERE IS A NEWS FLASH> I HOPE CHARLIE DIES. THIS COMING FROM A FATHER THAT HAS SEEN HIS CHILD SUFFER. IF THE YOUNG CHILD IS IN PAIN AND CAN’T BE SAVED, AND THE ONLY REASON FOR HIM TO CONTINUE IN PAIN IS FOR US, AND THERE IS NOT A CHANCE FOR HIM TO LEAD A LIFE LIKE THE REST OF US. LET HIM DIE. I PRAYED FOR MY SON TO DIE, YOU SEE HE WAS DIAGNOSIS WITH A RARE LIVER ALIMENT. THIS WAS THE SECOND TIME THEY HAVE EVER SEEN THIS. I SEEN HIM GO THROUGH SO MANY SURGERY’S, SEEN SO MUCH PAIN FOR HIM WITH NO CURE. I BEGGED GOD IF THERE IS NO CURE AND IF HE IS IN PAIN, PLEASE TAKE HIM. DO MOT LET HIM SUFFER FOR ME AND MY FAMILY. RELIEVE HIS PAIN.

[jarofants]

READ MY POST AT 37.

[jarofants]

YOU PEOPLE DO NOT KNOW WHATS BEST FOR CHARLIE. GUESS WHAT GOD KNOWS WHATS BEST FOR HIM. IT IS HIS PLAN. THIS IS COMING FROM A FATHER WHO LOST HIS SON AT ONE AND HALF YEAR OLD. YOU KNOW WHAT I PRAYED GOD TO TAKE HIM, JUST LIKE I PREY GOD TO TAKE HIM. I PAYED GOD TO TAKE MY SON IF HE WAS SUFFERING AND WOULD NOT ENJOY LIFE LIKE THE REST OF US. MY SON HAD A RARE LIVER DISEASE AND HAD NO CHANCE OF LIVING A NORMAL LIFE. IT IS LIKE WINNING THE HIGHEST LOTTERY IN REVERSE, BUT MY BABY IS NOT SUFFERING ANYMORE.

[Lurker]

“So even with their own money to pay for treatment, it was denied because the hospital disagreed.”

The plebes must be reminded from time to time who is actually in charge

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[jarofants]

GET REAL GOD HAS A PLAN. CHARLIE IS PAIN. WOULD YOU RATHER SEE HIM IN PAIN. HE HAS NO CHANCE AT A NORMAL LIFE. I’M SAYING THIS AS A FATHER WHO HAD THE SAME SIMILAR EVENTS. MY SON WAS DOCUMENTED WITH ONLY THE SECOND TYPE OVER LIVE DISEASE WITH NO CHANCE OF LIVING. ALMOST 2 YEARS OF WATCHING SURGERY AFTER SURGERY, PREYING GOD TO STOP ALL OF HIS PAIN. HOPING THAT GOD WOULD TAKE HIM HIM IF THERE WAS NO CHANCE, FOR STOPPING THE PAIN TO END. WE ARE SO SELFISH THAT WE WANT PEOPLE/CHILDREN TO LIVE FOR US.

[Veto!]

Bureaucracies kill.

Indeed they do. I can only imagine the agony of these parents. Covering their broken hearts in prayer.

[piusv]

True that but the pictures that got me were the protesters. They all women. Most of the time I’m posting stuff of women who are “pro choice” and want abortions to kill their babies. Here what you saw were women protesting the death of a baby then crying when they lost. That so got to me in ways you guys will never know.

There's no way to know for sure, but I wonder whether these same women would be "pro-choice" wrt abortion. Given the anti-abortion percentage in Britain is in the single digits, chances are they would also protest the banning of abortion. Ironic.

[Mrs. Don-o]

Oh, exactly. They took the word "dignity", maimed it and pressed it into (dis)service to mean being hustled biskly toward the undertaker ("death with dignity"). The hoonorable word "dignity" was abducted by the prideful homosexuals, too: "Dignity" is the name of the Catholic Proud Sodomy gang.

And the name adopted by the Episcopalian Proud Sodomy gang? "Integrity."

[exit82]

[Mrs. Don-o]

Thank you. It brings tears to my eyes — i’s such a touching picture. Too bad the killers ran out the clock.

[exit82]

Teared me up also—Charlie was born on the same day as my youngest grandson.

I can’t even imagine being in this situation.

[Pajamajan]

That picture says it all.

[Maverick68]

Wake up: The Burgermeisters are more interested in seeing to the comfort of foreign invaders than wasting time, money and resources on some innocent baby.