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However, there is a group of doctors with an experimental drug in the United States. Chris and Connie have raised over $1.6 million to bring their son to the U.S. in hopes that the therapy trial may give him a shot at life.
Charlie’s Doctors at Great Ormond Street Hospital felt otherwise—that the child should be able to “die with dignity.” The medical professionals took Chris and Connie to court over the matter in which judges ruled in favor of the doctors—stripping the parents of their rights over Charlie’s medical treatments.
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After Chris and Connie sought consideration from judges in the High Court, Court of Appeals and Supreme Court in London—all of which ruled in favor of the doctors’ motion to remove Charlie from life support—they pressed for one final deliberation from the European court judges in Strasbourg, France, to consider their case.
The ECHR considered the appeal for nearly 10 days before making the decision to rule in favor of the doctors.
As if the blow wasn’t devastating enough already, doctors refused the parents’ request to bring their son home to die.
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As Christians, we know that the only One who has dictatorship over life is the One who gives life itself. Continued prayers today for Chris and Connie as they face judges again in the fight for Charlie’s life.
We hope that sharing Charlie’s story will provoke prayers among the masses—that God would be the only one to write this little boy’s story, and that His mighty hand would be all over this case.
