And around we go again

Another brain dead baby is removed from life support in Britain and the " Christians " start howling. The case of Alfie Evans is pretty much identical to that of Charlie Gard, which we went through last year. Both had neurodegenerative conditions which resulted in the destruction of the cerebral cortex and a vegetative state. In both cases, their physicians wanted to take them off of life support and the parents fought it, refusing to accept reality. Along came the Pope and the Christian right calling the doctors murderers.  We also got the plain old right claiming that it was socialism that was killing these babies.First, let ' s dispense with " socialism " nonsense. Britain does have socialized medicine but that has absolutely nothing to do with either case. It was the doctors, not the government, who proclaimed both cases hopeless. The policy in the U.K. is to do what can be done to keep babies alive, but these babies were dead. And the exact same scenario happens in the United States, with regularity.In fact, with socialized medicine it ismore likely that more will be done in such cases because if a everybody has insurance, and there is  a deeper risk pool, and more widely shared stakes. In the U.S., people with no insurance, or inadequate insurance, die all the time from preventable causes. That is perfectly okay with the same sanctimonious right wingers who are blaming socialism for these babies ' deaths. The UK is a parliamentary democracy and if there was a ...
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