When parents become subservient to the state, children’s lives are jeopardized
By Yitzchok Adlerstein and Michael Broyde, Christian Post:
The plight of an Orthodox Jewish child, whose life physicians in the U.K. are campaigning to end, appears to pose no threat to us here in the U.S. But appearances are deceiving.
Odious as it sounds, one ocean may not be enough to prevent the European model of placing the dictates of the super-state ahead of the wishes of parents. Oddly, our refusal so far to ratify a U.N. treaty on the rights of children might be critical to the lives of all future children in the U.S.
Alta Fixsler is a Jewish Israeli citizen residing in the U.K. who was sadly born with a severe brain condition. Her parents have tried every remedy available for her, and so far, they have had no success. The doctors at the Royal Manchester Children’s Hospital have petitioned the government to cease treating her, remove her from life support, and let her die. They have started this petition process against the wishes of her mother and father and against the wishes of the nation she is a citizen of, Israel, which has offered to provide for her free care in two different Israeli hospitals.
At a trial in London in May, physicians argued that it was visually obvious that Alta was suffering. Alta’s father insisted that having raised her with his wife from birth, he knew that she was not reacting in pain. Medical experts in the U.S. who reviewed Alta’s brain scans agreed that she was suffering no pain at all.
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