{"id":167803,"date":"2017-06-19T18:21:30","date_gmt":"2017-06-19T22:21:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.liveaction.org\/news\/?p=167803"},"modified":"2017-06-19T17:48:19","modified_gmt":"2017-06-19T21:48:19","slug":"court-tells-hospital-continue-life-support-baby-charlie-gard","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/court-tells-hospital-continue-life-support-baby-charlie-gard\/","title":{"rendered":"London court orders hospital to continue life-support for baby Charlie Gard"},"content":{"rendered":"
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The Supreme Court<\/a> in London has ordered Great Ormond Street Hospital to continue providing life-support to 10-month-old Charlie Gard. Charlie has been on life-support since becoming ill two months ago due to the extremely rare RRM2B mitochondrial depletion syndrome no one knew he had. While his parents, Chris Gard and Connie Yates, worked to save him and found an experimental treatment that has the potential to save his life and a doctor who is willing to try it, Great Ormond Street Hospital, where Charlie is being treated, began fighting to end Charlie’s life by withdrawing life-support.<\/p>\n

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Though the family lives in London and the treatment that could save Charlie is in the United States, his parents successfully raised \u00a31,308,640 to date and are ready to get him the help he needs. However, a court ruled in favor of the hospital and since then Charlie has remained on life-support while his parents continue to appeal the decision. His parents lost appeals<\/a> in the High Court, the Court of Appeal, and the Supreme Court in London. Now they are hoping the European Court of Human Rights will help them take a shot at saving their son.<\/p>\n

Up for debate in this legal battle is whether or not parents should have the right to get their child the medical treatment they want for him. When a child is placed in the hospital, is it up for doctors to decide how to proceed, or parents?<\/p>\n

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