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February 26, 2006
Judge Rules Doctors Must Let Baby Charlotte Dieand they
Topics: Life Issues
Charlotte Paige Wyatt was born after an emergency caesareans at 26 weeks, three months early on the 21'st of October 2003 at St. Mary's Hospital in Porstmouth, England. At birth she weighed only 458 grams, and was barely five inches long. She was immediately put in an incubator, and it was three months time before Darren and Debbie were able to hold her. Her mom and dad love her, and they don't want her to die.
It was back on December 6, 2005 that Baby Charlotte went home for the first time, when just six weeks earlier the High Court lifted a ruling which said doctors need not resuscitate Charlotte in a life-threatening situation, if they decided it was not in her best interests. She had defied the odds, and it was 14 months after doctors said Charlotte Wyatt's quality of life would be so poor, she should not have revival treatment. Charlotte had lived beyond all the expectations, her dad called her a fighter back then, and she still is, although right now she's in yet another battle for her life.
But apparently the judges know better than Charlotte and her parents; they believe that doctors should decide against her parents wishes, and instead of helping Baby Charlotte fight for her life, the doctors should simply look the other way when she needs them most, and in effect, kill her!
Because now, a judge has ruled that doctors must let Baby Charlotte die:
The parents of Charlotte Wyatt have been told that doctors are to be allowed to let their profoundly ill baby daughter die if they feel it is in her best interests.So once again, a judge has decided when life is intolerable (notice it's not his life we're talking about - of which he just might assign a differnt lever of "tolerability" if it was his life under consideration) that another human being shall die, because their life isn't "valuable enough", it will "cost too much" to continue the fight for the life, or that a a life isn't worth saving because the judge, not God, has decided that he and he alone can determine the value of a life, and to heck with what the parents that brought the child into the world, have to say about the matter. Why not, doesn't our world murder 126,000 unborn children each day? So what's another life or two, or three, or ...A High Court judge yesterday lifted a previous ruling that she should always be resuscitated, on the grounds that the two-year-old was now on a "downward rather than an upward trend".
Mr Justice Hedley heard an emergency application from doctors treating her that she had developed an aggressive chest infection and was unlikely to survive any moves to keep her alive.
"Medical evidence speaks with one voice, that ventilation simply will not achieve the end for which no doubt the parents would wish," he said.
Charlotte's condition was said to be "deteriorating" last night. Her mother, Debbie, 24, from Portsmouth, still believes that if her daughter were ventilated she would recover.
But Mr Justice Hedley said there had been a "very significant deterioration in Charlotte's condition".
It is the fifth time he has had to make a ruling about Charlotte's treatment.
Doctors at St Mary's Hospital, Portsmouth, had previously argued that her life was so intolerable that if her condition worsened they should be allowed to withhold treatment.
Charlotte suffers from severe lung, brain and kidney damage.
But her condition improved so much that last October the judge removed a ruling allowing doctors to let her die.
ProLife Blogs is following the story...
Related: Charlotte's Web: When the State Decides if Your Baby Shall Live or Die
Charlotte Wyatt's website
Hat tip - Michelle Malken
Posted by Richard at February 26, 2006 05:42 PM
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