Archie Battersbee: 12-year-old boy dies hours after hospital ends life support against parents’ wishes
British law allows for courts to intervene when parents and doctors disagree on a child’s medical treatment A 12-year-old boy who was comatose in the United Kingdom has died after a lengthy legal battle ended with the determination that doctors could remove…
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Archie Battersbee: Court rules life-support can end
Life-support treatment for 12-year-old Archie Battersbee can end, a judge has ruled. Archie was found unconscious at home in Southend, Essex, on 7 April. Doctors at the Royal London Hospital said he was “brain stem dead” and it was in…
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