At the time of Charlie Gard’s case, I took the view the the parents had to make an agonising choice for what was best for the child and let go, because there was no chance of any form of recovery. Although the ailment is the same here, the circumstances are different.
‘By the time you read this, I could be dead. That’s according to my doctors who, for the last year, have repeatedly told me that I have had only days to live. But I am a fighter and will continue to fight.’
These are the devastating words of a seriously ill — yet inspiringly defiant — 19-year-old girl who argues that she will be condemned to almost certain death if NHS doctors are successful in their bid to withdraw her life-preserving treatment.
The difference is that we have an adult who is able to communicate her wishes and exercise consent – and she does not consent to the withdrawal of treatment. That should be an absolute, yet the NHS went to court and the court upheld their decision.
Ultimately, quality of life matters, but that is an individual choice, for if we do not have dominion over our own lives, then what is liberty if not an empty word? The NHS and the court here has made the wrong decision. In this person’s situation, I might make the decision to let go. The late Mrs L took the option for treatment for her terminal cancer. It made matters worse, not better. If I faced that decision, I’d take palliative care and go. But I am not this girl. She wants to carry on and fight. The NHS has no business taking that decision away from her. It is there to serve us, not to dictate. We have reached a point where these people think they are God. They are not. Likewise the judge who upheld the NHS’ case. Shame on them, shame on them all.
I read the full article in the Daily Mail this morning and as per usual it is more about censorship, silence and castration than it is about anything else.
This is not a child, at 19, she is an adult without mental illness and with clarity of purpose, to live as long as she is able, something she has clearly and repeatedly expressed.
The gag order prevents her from raising funds (some £1.5m) for treatment abroad.
That alone is despicable and also quite typical of the NHS response to these sorts of medical dilemmas. You think the NHS would have learned from previous PR disasters, such as the Charlie Gard case and that of Aysha King whose cancer was placed in remission by Proton Beam Therapy not available from the NHS.
Clearly, lessons haven’t been learned and we’re going to go around this whole merry-go-round once more with this young adult.
It’s pure bloody evil, frankly.
It’s murder isn’t it?
Not yet, but likely if this judgement persists.
With the Aysha King case, it wasn’t until they faced the prospect of having to justify their actions in a Spanish court that they backed down and withdrew their demand for extradition from Spain.
This young woman can’t easily go anywhere else since she has neither the necessary medical support, nor the funds to do so and they are prevented from raising funds by the courts gag order.
Hopefully the Daily Mail reporting will blow this matter wide open. Shining a light in dark places and forcing a retraction of the gag order.
An utter fucking disgrace.
Plenty of cash for cock-chopping and plastic tits though, eh, NHS?
If I was her I tell the court to go fuck themselves. What they gonna do? Execute her?
Poor woman. For once the epithet ‘brave’ is entirely appropriate.
I find it difficult to believe. They’re going to put her to sleep like someone’s pet dog. Unbelievable.
Envy of the world, mind…
It seems to be the case that not a day goes by these days when there is not some horror story linked to the UK’s disgraceful and malfunctioning ‘health service’.
I think there’s more to this case than meets the eye. Assisted suicide has become big business in Canada (one of the four epicentres of wokeness outside the US and UK) – the goal I’d imagine is to use the courts to legalise execution of those with the wrong opinion – using cases like these as a Trojan horse. Thinking more broadly the target global population for the likes of Gates, Soros and Schwab is around 800 million – that means 7 billion need to die. The judicially approved murder process is an important part of that.