Christian parents lose bid to send disabled son, four, to Italian hospital
by Ryan Prosser, Daily Mail:
High Court judge says he should not be ‘forced to live’.
A Christian mother and father have lost their bid to send their severely disabled four-year-old son to a Vatican-backed hospital in Italy after a judge ruled that he should not be ‘forced to live’.
The boy, who was born with serious disabilities and cannot see or hear, has been kept alive by life support machines at London‘s King’s College Hospital since 2023, after suffering a serious infection of the brain which caused him to have two heart attacks.
His Catholic parents insist their son ‘has awareness of what might be called beneficial or positive interactions with the world around him’ and ‘knows us and knows he is loved’.
But doctors at the hospital applied to the Family Division of the High Court to withdraw his life-sustaining treatment on the basis that the burdens on him ‘far, far outweigh’ any benefits.
The decision has been fought tooth and nail by the parents, identified only as Mr and Mrs R, who say their son is ‘a gift from God’ and it is ‘wholly unethical to bring about his death by choice’.
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