The parents of baby Charlie Gard have received critical backing for a law pushing for parental rights of sick children. Charlie’s Law was inspired by the tragic ordeal parents Connie Yates and Chris Gard went through in 2017 when courts ordered the couple to bypass possibly life-saving experimental treatment for their infant son, instead being forced to watch baby Charlie die in a London hospital.
“If the proposal is backed by Parliament, the parents of sick children who disagree with doctors on life-and-death decisions will have more rights over treatment,” reported The Daily Mail on Thursday. The law would reportedly have a “significant harm” test, meaning parents would have the right to seek treatment for their sick child at other hospitals as long as it wouldn’t cause the child “significant harm.”
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