The decision of the English judges to proceed today at 11 AM (🇬🇧 time) with the suspension of life support for little Indi, despite the possibility of the Bambino Gesù hospital in Rome 🇮🇹 to provide her with the best palliative therapies and despite the granting of Italian citizenship, is a defeat for humanity, for medicine, for science, and for Western civilization.
The decision was made on the basis of quality of life parameters that are totally euthanistic and that plunge us back into the darkest periods of our recent history.
A little girl will die today from suffocation not because of her illness but because a judge prevented her parents from helping her to breathe. #IndiGregory joins Charlie Gard, Alfie Evans and Isaiah Haastrup in the ranks of young British children whom the British health service and the British judiciary have deemed unworthy to live despite the effective possibility of the best palliative care and the love of their parents.
While thanking the Italian government for everything it has done to try to save little Indi's life, we hope that a bilateral agreement between Italy and the United Kingdom will be promoted in the near future to allow parents who wish to do so to bring their sick children to Italy for treatment, and thus avoid similar situations in the future.
Hours before the UK government planned to remove an 8-month-old baby from her ventilator, the Vatican's pediatric hospital offered treatment at no cost.
Baby Indi’s parents are desperate to accept their offer, but the UK is refusing, insisting Indi must be “allowed to die.”