Cardinal Nichols backs hospital in Alfie case
May 01, 2018
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CWN Editor's Note: Britain’s leading Catholic prelate has praised the staff of Alder Hey hospital for its treatment of Alfie Evans, charging that critics of the hospital “sought political capital” while doctors were concerned with the child’s welfare. Cardinal Vincent Nichols of Westminster also argued that England’s courts were right to override the wishes of the child’s parents, saying that “a court must decide what’s best not for the parents, but for the child.”
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Posted by: Jim Hanink -
May. 01, 2018 8:29 PM ET USA
With respect, Cardinal Nichols does not address a fundamental issue. Given Alfie's condition, his parents should have been allowed to take him home. Cardinal Nichols gives far too much weight to the State, far too much weight to "clinicians." Again, what's missing is a point by point discussion of the relevant moral arguments. Too often, this is absent.
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Posted by: garedawg -
May. 01, 2018 11:31 AM ET USA
So the Bishop is OK with starving a child to death?
