{"id":7699,"date":"2017-05-25T11:06:09","date_gmt":"2017-05-25T15:06:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/worldjusticenews.com\/news\/?p=7699"},"modified":"2017-05-25T11:06:09","modified_gmt":"2017-05-25T15:06:09","slug":"charlie-gard-doctors-can-stop-providing-life-support-sick-baby-parents-lose-court-appeal-fight","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/worldjusticenews.com\/news\/2017\/05\/25\/charlie-gard-doctors-can-stop-providing-life-support-sick-baby-parents-lose-court-appeal-fight\/","title":{"rendered":"Charlie Gard: Doctors can stop providing life support for sick baby as parents lose Court of Appeal fight"},"content":{"rendered":"
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A<\/span> couple who want to take their sick baby son to the USA for treatment have lost a legal battle in the Court of Appeal.\u00a0 Chris Gard and Connie Yates want nine-month-old Charlie Gard, who suffers from a rare genetic condition and has brain damage, to undergo a therapy trial.\u00a0 Specialists at Great Ormond Street Hospital in London, where Charlie is being cared for, say therapy proposed by a doctor in America is experimental and will not help. They say life-support treatment should stop.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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Chris Gard and Connie Yates with their son Charlie Gard<\/span> Credit:<\/span> PA <\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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A<\/span> High Court judge last month ruled against a trip to America<\/a> and in favour of Great Ormond Street doctors.\u00a0 Mr Justice Francis concluded that life-support treatment should end and said Charlie should be allowed die with dignity.\u00a0 Charlie’s parents, who are in their 30s and come from Bedfont, west London, had asked three Court of Appeal judges to overturn Mr Justice Francis’s decision.\u00a0 But Lord Justice McFarlane, Lady Justice King and Lord Justice Sales, who analysed evidence at a Court of Appeal<\/a> hearing in London on Tuesday, have upheld the ruling.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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