The parents of a baby declared brain dead by doctors have lost the latest round of a legal battle in Britain’s courts to keep him on life support.
Parents of infant on life support petition for experimental treatment
The baby was starved of oxygen due to complications at birth, and was born not breathing and without a heartbeat. He has been on a ventilator ever since. One of the judges, Andrew McFarlane, said Midrar Ali no longer had a"brain that is recognizable as such." The baby's parents, who live in Manchester in northwest England, do not accept that his condition is irreversible and want the courts to consider opinions from foreign experts.The case is a latest in a series of legal challenges by parents to doctors in Britain’s state-funded National Health Service.
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