UK Baby Can Have Life-Support Turned Off, Judge Rules Against Parents’ Wishes

UK Baby Can Have Life-Support Turned Off, Judge Rules Against Parents’ Wishes
King's College hospital in London on Sep. 26, 2007. Cate Gillon/Getty Images
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A British judge has ruled that an 11-month-old boy with severe brain damage may have his life-support turned off, against the wishes of his parents.

Doctors of King’s College Hospital, London, wanted to discontinue Isaiah Haastrup’s life-support treatment and provide him only palliative care, arguing that further intensive care treatment was “futile, burdensome, and not in [Isaiah’s] best interests”, reports The Sun.