Alfie Evans, UK toddler dies at the hand of the State

Alfie Evans, the U.K. toddler is dead. He never quite reached his second birthday because the government refused to allow his parents to take him for treatment in Italy. 

The child was taken off life support in spite of the heartbroken protests of his parents, Kate James and Tom Evans. Even Pope Francis became involved in Alfie's plight but to no avail. The government said that it was in the baby's best interest to allow him to die.

The announcement of Alfie's death came Saturday morning.

Alfie had a degenerative brain condition known as encephalomyopathic mitochondrial DNA depletion. 

It is likely Alfie would have died even if he was treated in Italy, but didn't he and his parents deserve the chance to try to extend his life?

Does any government have the right to overrule the parents of a child who want to save, not kill, their baby? Do they have the right to prevent the parents from leaving the hospital with their baby and traveling to a country that had the decency to make him a citizen in order to treat him?

England is shameful.


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U.K. has become a disgusting hovel that plays God very poorly

It's one thing when the parents of a child with medical conditions want to kill the child and the hospital and government forbid it. But it's another thing when the parents of a child want to do whatever they can to save the child and the hospital and government want the child to die because "it's in the child's best interests."

The United (aka Untied) Kingdom has decided that 23-month-old baby Alfie Evans should die. What a horrible, horrible decision the court system came to after the judge denied the parents' request to travel to Italy to seek further treatment.

Now that Alfie is of life-support since Monday night and battling for his life, his parents have been forced to give him mouth-to-mouth resuscitation while sitting in a hospital.

The Sun reported on Tuesday that the "Evans' parents are giving him mouth-to-mouth resuscitation in a desperate bid to keep him alive after a court ruled he cannot be flown to Italy for treatment. Tom Evans tonight said he and Alfie's mum Kate are trying to help Alfie's breathing after 'his lips turned blue.'"

Tom Evans made this incredibly sad comment outside Alder Hey Hospital in Liverpool. "We were doing what a nurse should have been doing to sustain his life," he said.

"Now they are saying that he looks really good but we all know he should be in Italy right now."

Baby Alfie is thought to suffer from encephalomyopathic mitochondrial DNA depletion syndrome. The hospital staff claim keeping him alive is not in his "best interest." Yes, these wonderful people believe that death is in Alfie's best interest but his parents don't agree. Tom and Kate Evans are fighting a last-ditch legal battle to take Alfie to Italy for treatment where Italy has even granted the baby citizenship and an offer of assistance.

But the Evans' were met only with rejection from the U.K.:

"Alfie Evans' family has lost its legal challenge to fly him to Italy for treatment in what judge calls the 'final chapter in the case of this extraordinary little boy,'" wrote Josh Halliday of The Guardian.

 How very stiff upper lip and all that rot.


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