(ProsperNews.net) – A judge in the United Kingdom is forced an ailing infant’s parents to remove the child from life support rather than allowing the family to see medical treatment from Vatican City. Baby Indi Gregory died shortly after life support was turned off.
Justice Robert Peel, the judge overseeing the family’s case, had ordered the immediate removal of the life-saving apparatus. The family then appealed to the United Kingdom’s Court of Appeals, which upheld Peel’s controversial ruling.
The family sought treatment from standard United Kingdom medical experts, but after the court’s initial ruling, the family sought medical treatment from the Vatican instead. The court denied the possible alternative treatment and claimed that the Vatican’s proposed alternative care wasn’t proper. The Italian government fought against the decision by granting Italian citizenship to the young girl, Indi Gregory. The child’s new citizenship status made him eligible for health care in the Vatican despite the protests of the United Kingdom’s government.
Indi Gregory was born earlier this year with a degenerative mitochondrial disease, which poses a high risk to young infants. The Italian government and members of the Vatican worked together to prepare Indi Gregory’s spot at a hospital in Rome to provide a possible life-saving treatment for the ailing infant, but to no avail. The United Kingdom officials overseeing Indi Gregory’s case are receiving heavy backlash for the decision, which they believe stems from a desire by the United Kingdom’s government to avoid funding Indi Gregory’s treatment.
Indi Gregory’s treatment prompted an international discourse between Italy and the United Kingdom, with Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni demanding the United Kingdom’s Lord Chancellor, Alex Chalk, cooperate by providing a transfer for Indi Gregory to the Rome hospital. According to Meloni, the child’s status as an Italian citizen required an immediate transfer from the United Kingdom to save the child’s life.
Despite the decision to deny Indi Gregoy access to alternative medical treatments, the United Kingdom’s officials are notably silent about the case. The Gregory family is criticizing the courts; they claimed that a transfer would have been more efficient and wouldn’t interfere with their child’s “right to life.” The reasoning for the court’s decision to remove Indi Gregory from her life support isn’t entirely clear, but it likely stems from a decision to avoid funding a procedure for a child with a low chance of survival.
Unfortunately, the legal battle over Indi Gregory’s treatment dragged on too long, and the infant died from brain damage before the transfer’s approval.
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