Fri Aug 5, 2022 – 9:59 am EDT
LONDON (LifeSiteNews) – Britain’s High Court ruled Friday that 12-year-old Archie Battersbee cannot be moved from the hospital – where he is currently residing – to a hospice for private palliative care. His mother called the ruling “sick” and “outrageous” and looks to appeal the decision.
After the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) refused to intervene Wednesday against the decision of Archie’s doctors to turn off his life support – a move his parents have fiercely opposed – the boy’s mother, Hollie Dance, and father, Paul Battersbee, requested to have their son moved to a hospice where he would be provided palliative care and could “spend his last moments” with his family in private, but were blocked by hospital staff.
Archie’s parents petitioned the U.K.’s High Court on Thursday to allow their son to be moved to “a peaceful hospice to say goodbye.” The hearing went late into the evening, but the court handed down a ruling Friday afternoon determining that it would not be in the boy’s “best interests” to allow the transfer.
Arguing against keeping her son in the hospital where staff plan to remove
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