▲ The courts denied the family’s request to transfer Archie to hospice.Photo App
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Newspaper La Jornada
Sunday, August 7, 2022, p. 8
London. Archie Battersbee, a 12-year-old boy who had been in a coma for four months, died yesterday in a London hospital after doctors disconnected his life support equipment, ending treatment that was the center of a long battle in the United States. courts.
Archie’s mother, Hollie Dance, said the boy died at 12:15 p.m. local time, about two hours after the hospital began withdrawing treatment. British courts rejected the family’s request to transfer Archie to a hospice and the European Court of Human Rights refused for a second time to intervene in the case.
Archie’s care became the focus of weeks of legal debate, with parents trying to force the hospital to go on life support and doctors saying there was no chance the boy would recover and he should be allowed to die.
Archie was found unconscious in April, with signs of having a ligature placed around his neck, probably as part of a challenge. on-line.
On Friday, Supreme Court Judge Lucy Thies denied the family’s request, saying the boy should remain in the hospital while he was disconnected.
The dispute is the latest in Britain in which the doctors’ judgment runs counter to the family’s wishes. Under British law, courts often intervene when parents and doctors disagree about a child’s treatment. In these cases, what is best for Archie takes precedence over the parents’ right to decide what is best for their children.
