An end at last to the Charlie Gard case
A protracted legal case closes as the parents of a desperately ill child agree to let him die
AFTER five months of agonising court battles, on July 24th the parents of Charlie Gard, an 11-month-old boy suffering from a rare genetic disorder, ended their fight to keep their son alive. They had wanted to take him to America to receive an experimental treatment that his doctors in Britain argued was not in his interests. The case has raised intense debate around the world about the limits of the power of parents and the state.
This article appeared in the Britain section of the print edition under the headline “Peace at last”
Britain July 29th 2017
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- An end at last to the Charlie Gard case
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