ADVERTISEMENTAs news spread in the community, dozens of people laid flowers and mementoes in a park near Alder Hey Children’s Hospital in Liverpool, where Alfie was treated. But his parents fought for months to try to convince judges to allow them to take him to the Vatican’s children’s hospital, where life support would have been maintained. Under British law, courts are asked to intervene when parents and doctors disagree on the right course of treatment for a child. “Our lives have been turned upside down by the intense focus on Alfie and his situation,” Evans said Thursday outside the Liverpool hospital. Francis recently appealed for the wishes of the boy’s parents to be heeded, saying only God can decide who dies.

Source: Philippine Daily Inquirer April 28, 2018 23:48 UTC