Court rules to pull the plug on terminally ill child
Updated | By Damon Beard
Do we have the right to play ‘God’?
There's a 10-month-old little boy whose life support is set to be switched off after a European Court rejected his parents' final appeal.
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His parents had urged judges to intervene and allow them to take their terminally ill son to America for experimental treatment.
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Charlie suffers from a rare genetic condition and has brain damage.
His parents have raised more than £1 million to take him to the US, but courts in Britain ruled he should be allowed to die as the treatment will not help him.
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Now the European Court of Human Rights has rejected a plea for them to intervene.
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