Isaiah Haastrup Fr. Mark Hodges
LONDON, England, January 31, 2018 (LifeSiteNews) — A English judge ruled that an 11-month-old boy must die, ignoring his parents’ wishes to keep him on life support.
Justice Alistair MacDonald of the High Court decreed that keeping Isaiah Haastrup alive was “not in his best interest.” His parents, Lanre and Takesha, urged Kings College Hospital to keep their child breathing.
The 11-month-old lost oxygen when he was born, resulting in brain damage. The boy is barely conscious and needs a machine’s help to breathe, but he is not in a coma.
His mother, who wants to take Isaiah home to care for him, says her son reacts to the sound of her voice and the touch of her face.
“When I speak to him, he will respond, slowly, by opening one eye,” Takesha told the judge. “I see a child who is injured. He needs love. He needs care. I have it. I can give it.”
Hospital experts say keeping Isaiah on a respirator is “futile” and “burdensome.”
Takesha disagrees. Isaiah “definitely has an emotional connection to me” when she cuddles and bathes him. “When I call his
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