OK folks, this is being discussed over here but it isn’t policy or practice (yet). The ‘baby Wyatt’ case is still very much unusual and almost, a ‘one-off’.
Some of us are on the case, lobbying our Member’s of Parliament, the National Health Service, the British Medical Association, the Royal College of Nursing and so on. We have SPUC (Society for Protection of Unborn Child) and other Pro-Life movements here and we are all lobbying like mad.
Divine Apostle: you are confused. This isn’t about abortion clinics per se, but of babies born early, particularly at the (about) 22 week point when modern medical science can keep them alive whereas, in the past, the child would have died.
It is despicable that we should be even having this debate but… there you go. It is all part of the Culture of Death which people in this country are buying into more and more. Lonevoice has a good link to the Charlotte Wyatt website and you can go visit and see some of the issues for yourself. It is just so crass to use the situation in Holland as any sort of ‘ethical’ yardstick. Sadly, the government, people and medics of that country seem to have given up on God entirely.
The Blair government has ‘spun’ this issue so that it appears to be one about the public cost of healthcare. They are doing it with all groups; from ‘premmy’ babies right through to the elderly. They feel they will garner more public support that way, while also avoiding the (for them) pain of getting into placing this issue where it properly belongs; an issue of morality and ethics. The doctors don’t like discussing it on moral grounds either; they also prefer to keep it to the anodyne level of health care costs.
In case they hadn’t got it. The issue is murder, dummies! Making the choice (wilfully and in full knowledge) to restrict or deny medical treatment is murder. Or you can use the fancy term: ‘Euthenasia’ but murder it is.
I think that we in the West (and I include you guys over the pond there) need to re-examine our attitude to the medical profession, and demand changes to the training that doctors (especially) receive. Because it seems to me that we have put far too much faith and power into their hands and made doctors think they are Gods for real. We need to ensure that our medics get at least some education in ethics and morality because it seems to me that they no longer do get this (name removed by moderator)ut.
BTW: thanks to Lonevoice for the link. I am surprised though. Over here the Children Act forbids the identification of children involved in any court case but especially one like her parent’s are involved in. So, surprised by the website not only identifying but containing photos. It doesn’t make it anymore lawful if the child’s own parents do it.
