Professor Steven Rose in The Guardian expresses our sympathy for baby Charlotte Wyatt—blind, deaf, scarcely able to respond to the world around her, brain-damaged and in constant pain, but kept alive artificially. For her Christian parents, her life was worth preserving at any cost, even though no miracle could make Charlotte a child able to live without artificial aid. For her doctors, resuscitation could only worsen the child’s pain and misery. A judge was asked to be arbiter, and decided Charlotte should be allowed to die. Could anyone human have done otherwise?
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