What's being argued here with this shallow analogy is that because the state has the power in some obvious situations where the parent's choice would endanger a child's life, the state should always get to impose its preferences over that of the parents.https://twitter.com/GeorgePeretzQC/status/989864390819278850 …
be made that it causes significant harm to a child to withhold a blood transfusion. In the Alfie Evans case, it's simply not clear because the Alder Hey course of action would have caused the child to die immediately.
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I don't think there can be a single one size fits all "legally workable test" for all such cases, but the Alfie Evans and Charlie Gard cases seem to be establishing a very bad precedent in favor of state paternalism.
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