The Murder of Charlie Gard

Charlie Gard was born with a rare genetic disorder that was more or less a death sentence right out the womb.  He isn't even a year old and he is destined to die.

Correction, Britain's national healthcare service AND courts deemed Charlie's life unworthy of attempting to save.

NHS doctors told little Charlie's parents to let their baby die. That it was in everyone's best interest.  What they really meant was treating Charlie was a burden on the government run healthcare system and they didn't want to pay for it.  It had nothing to do with what was best for Charlie.

Charlie is a baby.  Charlie has no say.

And Charlie's parents had no say.  An outrage!

There was an experimental treatment in the US but the NHS refused to let the Gards take their child out of the hospital let alone out of the country.  The Gards had to go to court and invoke public sympathy in order to pressure the courts and NHS to abide by their wishes.

By then it was too late for the experimental treatment to have any effect.  They'd waited too long.

Make no mistake, if the Gard's had been rich, Charlie would have been in America months ago.  Instead, his case got dicked around in the courts until it was too late and his parents were forced to give up.

What if it was your child?  Would this be acceptable to you?

Nothing has outraged me more, however, than the public response to the fate of little Charlie.

So many poored out their support for the Gards even helping them fund raise for the experimental treatment.  So many people were loving and moral enough to want to help a baby live.  I thank God there are still people like that out there.

But there were way more who praised the NHS and condemned Charlie's parents for trying to save their son.  Just today, I myself commented on Twitter about my own outrage.  I was trolled by quite a few Brits telling me to shut up.

But silence in the face of injustice is one of the biggest reasons the world sucks.

Truth:  We should have done everything humanly possible to save Charlie Gard.  No euthanizing babies because they burden you.  That's hateful.  And the ONLY people who should have had a say in whether or not Charlie went to America for treatment were his parents.  If we allow governments to decide our worth, we have no worth.

Truth:  As much as I view health care as a right and not a privilege, I'm forced to concede that government run healthcare is just as immoral and corrupt as privately run healthcare.  There's no winning in the health care game if you're poor.

British healthcare sentenced a baby to die because they didn't want the burden of treating him and the British people are ok with that.

No wonder their empire was destroyed.