A five-year-old girl, Tafida Raqeeb, has been on a life-support machine since she suffered irreversible brain damage in February. Doctors want to remove her life support, while her parents want her to receive treatment at a children’s hospital in Italy. It’s a terribly sad story - with no good outcome possible - especially now the case is going to court over who has the right to decide the fate of the child.
The parents say “It’s for God to take life and not mankind”, and also emphasise the young girl’s religious beliefs, “despite her tender age”. I hope the court is able to disregard the idea that a five-year-old child can be said to have any religious beliefs at all, and will come to the decision that the kindest course of action would be to let her die with dignity...
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