26-04-2018, 07:49 AM
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I wonder who these people outside the hospital are? Are they friends of the family ? Pro lifers ? Or just folks to who like to protest? I think whoever they are they should examine their motives for being there now. The child needs compassion not all this rubbish
26-04-2018, 09:01 AM
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Originally Posted by summer
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I wonder who these people outside the hospital are? Are they friends of the family ? Pro lifers ? Or just folks to who like to protest? I think whoever they are they should examine their motives for being there now. The child needs compassion not all this rubbish
26-04-2018, 09:49 AM
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Originally Posted by summer
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I wonder who these people outside the hospital are? Are they friends of the family ? Pro lifers ? Or just folks to who like to protest? I think whoever they are they should examine their motives for being there now. The child needs compassion not all this rubbish
26-04-2018, 01:10 PM
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Originally Posted by tarantula
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Now the supreme court has turned down the latest appeal, I hope Alfie's parents are permitted to have him home, as long as they don't try to take him to Rome. I believe there was some concern that they might try to do that.
Pope Francis, doubtless meant well, but his interference is at best unhelpful here and at worst damaging to an already fragile situation.
My fear is that it will encourage others who find themselves in a similar situation to believe that the doctors act "with malign intent".
The Pope would have been more merciful had he counselled the parents to let the child pass away peacefully, not encourage them to load him onto a plane and fly him hundreds of miles to die in a foreign hospital. No amount of medical treatment, not even in the confines of the Vatican, can rebuild an almost totally disease-destroyed brain.
26-04-2018, 01:54 PM
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Originally Posted by ruthio
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In my opinion the Pope was well out of order with his interference and ignorant offer of shipping the child over to Rome. Silly man!Pope Francis, doubtless meant well, but his interference is at best unhelpful here and at worst damaging to an already fragile situation.
My fear is that it will encourage others who find themselves in a similar situation to believe that the doctors act "with malign intent".
The Pope would have been more merciful had he counselled the parents to let the child pass away peacefully, not encourage them to load him onto a plane and fly him hundreds of miles to die in a foreign hospital. No amount of medical treatment, not even in the confines of the Vatican, can rebuild an almost totally disease-destroyed brain.
Well said.
26-04-2018, 02:01 PM
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Everything else aside, I think that if the parents want to take him to Rome they should have been allowed to do so. I don't understand why a court should be allowed to prevent this. Parents should be free to treat their child where they wish. I don't understand why the NHS is wasting money to get involved in court action that stops parents making choices for their children.
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