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Originally Posted by Mick
The healthcare system has saved my life and that of my younger brother, I’m not knocking it in that sense, its helped millions, but it does not have the right to dictate and or control a child over the parents wishes. It should be permissible for parents to decide the child’s fate, not the State or Doctors.
Where would Ashya King be right now, if his parents had not have abducted their own child to have treated abroad?
Ashya is now cleared of cancer, but he would have died had they not done what they did.
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Chalk and cheese Mick Even the chief paediatrician at Southampton hospital said at the time
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"Refusing treatment for a child is exceptionally serious. This is a young lad who has a very, very good chance of survival if he receives rapid treatment."
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It was normal treatment he was referring to. The parents wanted something different.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-32013634
Also worthy of note Ashya had a diagnosed condition Alfie did not.