Protesters who want critically ill British baby Charlie Gard to receive an experimental treatment are planning a rally and prayer vigil and hospital officials say they have received death threats in the heartbreaking case.
The lawyer who speaks for Baby Charlie Gard, the infant fighting for his life against a government order that he should be allowed to die, has been revealed as the chairman of a charity which campaigns to make euthanasia legal in the United Kingdom.
The Gard family’s spokesman Alasdair Seton-Marsden has said ill baby Charlie is “effectively being taken prisoner by the NHS and by the State”.
The parents of Charlie Gard walked out of a High Court hearing after the baby’s father, Chris Gard, accused the court of partiality after disputes over the growth of Charlie’s head – an indicator of the boy’s brain development.
LONDON (AP) — The parents of a baby with a rare disease returned to a court in London on Thursday, hoping for a fresh analysis of their wish to take the critically ill child to the United States for medical treatment.
A U.S. lawmaker who has proposed legislation to grant legal permanent status to critically ill baby Charlie Gard and his parents says under the U.K. system of government-run health care, the British judiciary is holding the baby “hostage.”
The parents of baby Charlie Gard have set out to debunk assertions about Charlie’s development, comfort, and quality of life, as they fight to have their son released from hospital to receive experimental treatment in the U.S., standing by their position that as long as Charlie is still fighting “then we’re still fighting”.
A High Court judge has adjourned Charlie Gard’s case for the day and ordered another hearing before deciding whether the baby should be released from Great Ormond Street Hospital to receive potentially life-saving treatment in the U.S.
The parents of baby Charlie Gard have delivered a petition with more than 370,000 signatures to Great Ormond Street Hospital for Children imploring hospital administrators to allow them to take Charlie to the U.S. for potentially life-saving treatment.
The London hospital that is treating baby Charlie Gard says it is applying to the U.K.’s High Court for a new hearing after learning of “fresh evidence” of potential treatments for Charlie. “Great Ormond Street Hospital for Children has today
Two Republican members of Congress said they plan to introduce legislation next week that would grant lawful permanent resident status in the United States to critically ill baby Charlie Gard and his parents to allow the child to leave the U.K. and receive experimental treatment in America.
U.S. pro-life leaders are calling upon the British government to allow the parents of critically ill baby Charlie Gard to privately seek further treatment for their son according to their own wishes as his parents.
The parents of baby Charlie Gard have raised funds privately to bring their seriously sick child to the United States for experimental treatment, but both the British courts and European Court of Human Rights say it is death that is in Charlie’s best interests.
The UK hospital where young Charlie Gard is being held has said they cannot accept an offer from the Vatican’s Bambino Gesù children’s hospital to treat the boy, since they are barred by “legal reasons.”
An NHS children’s therapist has shocked a Question Time audience by saying she hoped the children of people who voted to leave the EU contracted illnesses which couldn’t be cured – to teach their parents a lesson.
“Star Wars” star Mark Hamill ditched a promotional appearance for “The Force Awakens” this week in order to visit sick children at a London hospital.
