The tragic, melodramatic Charlie Gard case has really been about two issues: first, whether the Great Ormond Street Hospital, supported by the courts, was right to decide that the baby – who has mitochondrial depletion syndrome – should no longer be treated, and allowed to die; and second, whether the doctors and the judges were right to override the parents’ conviction that it was worth trying an experimental treatment in the US.
12 July 2017, The Tablet
The pain of passing: Catholic ethicists are divided over the Charlie Gard case
The Charlie Gard case
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