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I personally know people whose third child was born a "vegetable" as the doctors told them. They refused to turn off life support, and within a month that child was perfectly normal.
There is a growing so-called “children’s rights” movement that is attempting to hijack parental rights, and, as a result, prematurely end the life of ill children.
A recent article in the Journal of Medical Ethics outlines the “suffering” and “torture” supposedly inflicted by parents who insist on continued medical treatment for their sick children. The authors of the review, Dr. Joe Brierley and Dr. Andy Petros, two pediatricians from Great Ormond Street Hospital for Children in London, argue that subjecting children to treatment—when, in their opinion, a child is terminally ill—is “inhumane.”
In fact, they argue that continuing...
It's time people stopped looking at doctors as omniscient. They need to stop seeing themselves that way too.
However, it is important that parents don't view themselves as omniscient either.