Professor of Health, Law and Ethics pens piece for ‘The Guardian’ arguing Big Brother, not parents, should have the final say.
The story of 11-month-old U.K. baby Charlie Gard is equally heartbreaking, maddening, and terrifying. The boy’s parents, Chris Gard and Connie Yates, were barred from pursuing experimental but potentially life-saving treatment in the United States on their own dime by European bureaucrats who said it was in Charlie’s best interest to die, in their hospital, on their terms.
The story triggered a strong reaction here in the United States and abroad; President Donald Trump, Pope Francis, and hundreds of thousands of petition-signing Americans and Brits were all appalled by the horrors of a court mandating parents (who had not forfeited their rights because of neglect or abuse) pull the plug on their infant son and stop fighting for his life.
Authoritarianism, the repercussions of socialized medicine, and the culture of death are all fully on display in the tragic case of little Charlie.
But Ian Kennedy, a professor of health, law, and ethics at University College London, writing at The Guardian has a different take, one consistent with the pure leftist ideology: infant Charlie Gard “does not belong to his parents,” he belongs to Big Brother, and he should be sentenced to death.
“The first is the most fundamental: as a society, we must choose how to decide such heartbreaking cases,” writes Kennedy in a piece titled “Despite Charlie Gard’s tragic story, we must respect the process of our courts.”
“These are the steps. The first is to recognise that children do not belong to their parents,” he writes.
In other words, caring, fighting parents, like Chris and Connie, do not have the final say over their child’s life; the government knows better.
Let that sink in.
Via the Daily Wire