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Help Baby A’s court battle to maintain life-support: LifeFunder
LONDON (LifeSiteNews) – A London hospital is vying to remove life support from a 4-month old baby against his parents’ wishes despite the newborn showing signs of life weeks after doctors had declared him “brain stem dead.”
The infant, whose name has been concealed by the courts and is referred to as “Baby A,” is currently residing in a London hospital run by the publicly funded Guy’s and St. Thomas’ NHS Foundation Trust, where doctors are arguing that it is in the boy’s “best interests” to be removed from mechanical ventilation, an act which could lead directly to his death.
Baby A’s parents, on the other hand, are contesting the life-threatening advice of the doctors and are currently engaged in a legal battle with the hospital to keep their son on ventilation while they hope for a more substantial recovery. However, the doctors have petitioned the High Court of Justice Family Division to have Baby A’s life support removed, apparently to serve his “best interests.”
On July 13 Justice Anthony Hayden, the
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