The United Kingdom’s so-called National Health Service (NHS) has built up quite a name for itself for insisting on killing, in several infamous cases, infants despite parents and even foreign countries not only objecting but also offering to take in said infants. To cases such as Tafida Raqeeb, Charlie Gard, and Alfie Evans, the NHS can now add Alta Fixsler to the list of babies they are hell-bent on killing.
“Royal Manchester Children’s Hospital, where Alta is currently being cared for, told Alta’s parents that their daughter should be taken off life support and allowed to die. Doctors, they were told, had decided that Alta, tethered to a ventilator and requiring a feeding tube, was experiencing pain and had no quality of life.
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“Although a number of pediatric neurologists disagreed with Royal Manchester’s contention that Alta was in pain, the hospital physicians petitioned the British High Court for permission to remove her life support.
“In June, the court acceded to the hospital’s request. Justice Alistair MacDonald ruled that, even though Israel was prepared to accept Alta, taking her abroad would expose her to further discomfort ‘for no medical benefit,’ and that moving the child would ‘expose Alta to further pain and discomfort.’
“‘It cannot be said to be in Alta’s best interests,’ the justice explained, ‘to be transferred to Israel for life sustaining treatment to continue.’”
