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Charlie Gard Gets A Second Chance At Life

posted onJuly 8, 2017
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Article snippet: Posted at 9:17 pm on July 7, 2017 by streiff The Mengele-esque medical claque at London’s Great Ormond Street Hospital has found playing God has responsibility. They’ve “reconsidered” their unilateral decision to remove 11-month-old Charlie Gard from life support over the wishes of his parents. This is bullsh**. This hospital has not received any information that it didn’t have before they decided to go full-metal-stupid and go to court to impose their will to kill the child upon parents who were trying to save his life. There are a couple of hurdles yet to be cleared: One never knows how the FDA will react to this but the FDA administrator has been hostile, before his appointment, to FDA’s penchant for letting people die rather than approve experimental treatments. What we do know is that if a major research hospital, which is certainly the source of the proposed drug and treatment protocol, has gone out on a limb in an emotionally and politically charged case like this, then their Institutional Review Board has decided that the treatment is not only legal but ethical. The long term odds are against young Charlie. But as long as you are alive there is hope and keeping him alive, even for a while, is a small victory over the Culture of Death that is consuming Western Civilization. Link to the full article to read more

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