Alfie Evans has died

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Any man and woman of good will can recognize that the disregard of the right to life as well as the disregard of the natural right of parents are acts of injustice.
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Therefore, as men and women of faith, we, members of John Paul II Academy for Human Life and the Family stand in solidarity with the parents of Alfie Evans. We earnestly urge that legal authorities (the Court of Appeal) let Alfie be transferred to the Bambino Gesù Hospital where he may receive appropriate treatment and care. We also respectfully ask that His Holiness Pope Francis renew his support for Alfie, and that Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II will also intervene on behalf of Alfie, and that every doctor at Alfie’s bedside will not do anything to hasten his death or shorten Alfie’s life.

Professor Josef Seifert (President), Doyen Nguyen, M.D., S.T.D, Paul A Byrne MD, Professor Roberto de Mattei, Professor Claudio Pierantoni, Thomas Ward, MD, Philippe Schepens, MD, Professor Carlos Casanova, Dr. Maike Hickson, Professor Luke Gormally, John-Henry Westen, M.A., Christine de Marcellus Vollmer, Mercedes Arzú Wilson, Pedro Luis Llera, school director, Virginia Coda Nunziante, Judie Brown, Dame Colleen Bayer, John Bruchalski, MD, Anca Maria Cernea, MD, Richard Fitzgibbons, MD, Professor Stéphane Mercier, Steven W. Mosher, Claude Edward Newbury, MD, Jeanne Smits, Dr. Gerard van den Aardweg, Duke Paul von Oldenburg, Maria Madise, Maria Smereczynska.
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Who among you considers themselves more qualified to evaluate the bioethics of the hospital’s decision than the experts above?
 
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Listen to Fr Tad Pacholczyk, Director of Education at the National Catholic Bioethics Center discuss the Alfie Evans case…


“They won’t allow them to go home, they won’t allow them to bring in other doctors, they won’t allow them to take the child to another country where there might be other possibilities,” explained Fr. Tad. “It’s a very draconian situation in Britain now, with this type of hospital system that they have.”
 
It is puzzling people state that they disallowed other doctors access to Alfie when the documentation shows otherwise:

''In the light of the parents real and entirely understandable concern about the underlying neurological diagnosis, Professor Judith Cross was instructed independently to review the clinical history, the EEG’s and the serial MRI’s. I shall turn in more detail to the MRI scans shortly but it is beyond doubt that they confirm a ‘rapidly progressive destructive brain disease’. Professor Cross is presently the Prince of Wales’ Chair of Childhood Epilepsy at UCL - Great Ormond Street Institute of Child Health. She is also Honorary Consultant in Paediatric Neurology. She reviewed Alfie at the PICU on 15 June 2017.

The parents have, both in the course of these proceedings and in preparation for them, explored opportunities for alternative opinions. In particular they have instructed, through their solicitors who were acting at the time: Dr Martin Samuels(Consultant Respiratory Paediatrician); the Senior Clinical Team at the Ospedale Pediatrico, Bambino Gesu (BG) (Rome); Dr Matthias Hubner, Medical Director, Pediatric Air Ambulance, Amtsgericht Munchen; Professor Nikolaus Haas, Medical Director, Department of Paediatric Cardiology and Intensive Care, University Hospital Ludwig-Maximilians university (LMU) Munich.’’
 
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It is indeed puzzling, Ruby.

It’s like they haven’t read the court documents but that can’t be the case, surely?

I mean, surely someone wouldn’t pontificate on a case without checking their facts and the evidence that’s been given by many highly-qualified medics?

That would be too ridiculous to imagine.
 
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I_trust said:
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Londoner:
The Pope never disagreed with anything the English and Welsh bishops said.
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Pope:
Moved by the prayers and immense solidarity shown little Alfie Evans, I renew my appeal that the suffering of his parents may be heard and that their desire to seek new forms of treatment may be granted.
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And the Pope’s medical qualifications are what, exactly?
 
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And the Pope’s medical qualifications are what, exactly?
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It is not a matter of medical qualifications but ethics.
As a Catholic, we believe he is uniquely qualified on morality and ethics.
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I mean, surely someone wouldn’t pontificate on a case without checking their facts and the evidence that’s been given by many highly-qualified medics?
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One of the “medics” mentioned in Rubie’s post is Professor Nikolaus Haas, Medical Director, Department of Paediatric Cardiology and Intensive Care, University Hospital Ludwig-Maximilians university (LMU) Munich.’.
He has been highly critical of the hospital…
He also described a decision by the courts to deny the toddler’s parents the chance to take their son to Italy as “crazy”.

Alfie’s parents have fought and lost a series of high-profile legal battles to take their son to Italy for continued care.

This afternoon, his parents pledged to work alongside doctors to give him “the dignity and comfort he needs”.

But in an interview with German news outlet Welt, Professor Haas insisted the child should be allowed to leave intensive care weeks ago.
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Dr Izabela Pałgan, a paediatrician and children’s oncologist from Bydgoszcz in Poland, claims to have diagnosed the 23-month-old toddler in January on his parent’s request.

She has now spoken to RadioWnet, claiming Alfie’s condition is not as dire as everyone has been led to believe.

She said: “The doctors at the hospital in Liverpool have approached the High Court for permission to unplug the child from his life support machinery, claiming it will be in his best interests.

“But the child is not a dying child. On the Paediatric Glasgow Coma Scale the child ranks at about eight to nine points, so this is not a case of brain death.
“The child reacts to his father’s voice and periodically opens his eyes. Periodically the boy also clenches his mouth when given a dummy, therefore he shows reactions.

“The parents have absolutely stated the child communicates with them when they speak to him – they feel the child somehow feels their emotions and can emotionally connect with them.

“Certainly this is not a dying child. In Poland and I think in other European countries as well, children like this are simply taken care of with palliative care or home care.”

According to Dr Pałgan, the expert was called in to review Alfie’s case after family supporters sought out medical experts who could give a second opinion on Alfie’s conditions.
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And also mentioned in Ruby’s post was Dr. Matthias Hubner who also disagreed with the hospial, he outlined a treatment plan for Alfie.
 
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If the doctor from Poland had indeed diagnosed him at the parents request in January, why did the parents (who were representing themselves in court) not submit any of the evidence or invite her for testimony?

His mother and father were incredibly active on social media the entire time and never once referenced her/the diagnosis.

It seems to me, if what she was saying was true, it would be the absolute essential foundation to the parents case. Perhaps they just forgot…?
 
Trying to shut down Conversation again huh? “The Pope best not speak out on abortion, euthanasia, or medical tyranny. Hes not an almighty DOCTOR!”
 
As per the article you posted, in both cases, the doctors with differing opinions on both patients had not formally assessed them

They were not disregarded because they didn’t fit a narrative, they were assessed and weighed up against doctors who had actually seen, observed and understood the patient.
 
When in the course of human events…

Usurping the rights of parents to choose continuing medical treatment for their children fits neatly within the rest of that document. You already have a tyranny of sorts when a child is ordered to die rather than allowed to seek treatment elsewhere.
 
It still boils down to who has the right to make the decision for the child to seek out other treatment or care…The courts or the parents?

Apparently there is broad consensus among Catholic ethicists that the right belongs to the parents unless they chose clearly harmful treatments,
 
What counts as harm?

Every testimony from the doctors asserted that whilst it was unlikely Alfie felt pain, it couldn’t be ruled out.

The other ‘treatment or care’ was more palliative care. Except since it was being offered in Italy and required transit, it ran the risk of constant seizure on route, more brain damage and most importantly, possibly be painful to him.

I would assert inflicting pain on a dying, 22 month old child, is harming him.
 
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From a friend:

When Baby Alfie breathed his last, he did so in the arms of loved ones – his mother, his father, his Guardian Angel.

Baby Alfie was surrounded by doctors, but not ones who would treat his illness.
Baby Alife was surrounded by the best of Western medicine, but it was never applied.
Baby Alfie was surrounded by nurses, but they refused to feed him.
Baby Alfie was surrounded by armed guards, but they never protected him.
Baby Alfie was surrounded by administrators, but none saw him as more than a dollar figure.
Baby Alfie was surrounded by ethicists, who did not deem him a life worthy of life.
Baby Aflie was prayed over by priests, but the Catholic bishops of the United Kingdom defended the hospital.

Baby Alfie deserved the full protection of his government, and instead was treated as a pathogen to the state.

Like a physical body reacting to injury, the Mystical Body of Christ recoils at the injury of one of her members.

In a secular society, inconvenient lives are merely that. This isn’t the first time Europe has been savaged by armed guards, intent upon the death of the infirm and unwanted. Winston Churchill – a man who dedicated the latter years of his political career to the defeat of Hitler’s murderous ideologies – if he saw Britain today, would possibly believe that the Nazis had actually won the Second World War.

One truly cannot condemn more the failure of the Catholic bishops of the United Kingdom to act. Yet in stark contrast, the laity of England did react as the Body of Christ ought.

Millions of other Catholics in Italy, Poland, Ireland and the United States locked arms in prayer and fasting for the life of Baby Alfie. Despite the prognostications of his so-called medical caretakers, Alfie held on for days – and though tragic, his state-directed murder (and that’s what happened here) will be the rallying cry for every other child held hostage by socialized medicine and their death panels.

The good news is that Baby Alfie showed us that Christendom is alive and well. The not-so-good news is that our bishops once again are demonstrating that they must be led in holiness by the laity – and by examples of holiness and right action, not political duplicity mocked up as prudence and so-called dialogue.

Please pray for the Evans family and the repose of their son, Alfie.
 
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