Article snippet: Posted at 4:00 pm on July 29, 2017 by smoosieq Earlier this week, Connie Yates and Chris Gard, the parents of Charlie Gard, announced their heartbreaking decision to stop seeking treatment on his behalf. As Chris Gard said at the time, “We’ve decided it’s no longer in Charlie’s best interest to pursue treatment and we’ll let our son go to be with the angels.” Sadly, the news came yesterday that Charlie has indeed joined the angels. Listening to Chris Gard read the family’s statement about their decision earlier this week, I was particularly struck by this part: Chris Gard is right. And I am absolutely certain that Charlie will make a difference. How can I be so certain? Because of the profound effect another well-known, tragic figure once had on my own beliefs. I wasn’t always conservative and I wasn’t always pro-life. I was raised a Liberal — by loving, compassionate, well-intentioned, Classical Liberals, with occasional bouts of progressivism balanced out by fleeting moments of conservatism — but I was decidedly liberal. Though my family was liberal and held most of the traditional liberal views, we never really discussed abortion. I, without being willing to examine the issue overly closely, simply characterized myself as someone who was pro-choice, even though I would never personally choose to abort my child. I maintained that it wasn’t my place to make that decision for someone else, and carefully side-stepped any deeper exploration of the issue. In fact... Link to the full article to read more