Trust The Experts: England’s NHS Moves Forward To Kill Teen Who’s Desperately Asking To Live
A 19-year-old female has been effectively sentenced to her death after a judge decided that the experts know best, rejecting the young woman’s pleas to live. The Christian teenager — whom the world is only allowed to know as “ST,” per the courts — suffers from a rare genetic mitochondrial...
The teenager wants to fight until her last day, and has repeatedly told medical professionals that she wants to seek experimental treatment outside of the U.K. The U.K.’s National Health Service (NHS), though, wants to remove the teen from life-saving medical treatment, which would condemn her to death, potentially in a matter of days.
In fact, the NHS Trust, apparently perturbed that this youth wouldn’t take their advice and just die already, went to court in April to argue that the teen is not capable of making her own medical decisions. The Trust, comprised of NHS bureaucrats, successfully argued before a judge that the teen was delusional for not agreeing with her doctors that she has no hope and needs to just agree to die.
Here’s what the judge, Mrs. Justice Roberts, wrote in her judgment, which was issued in late August:
“In my judgment […] ST is unable to make a decision for herself in relation to her future medical treatment, including the proposed move to palliative care, because she does not believe the information she has been given by her doctors.”
The judge went on to say that ST isn’t merely making an “unwise” decision, which she would supposedly permit. But the teen is instead making an unacceptable choice, in the judge’s view, since in ST’s thought process, she is not affirming that her doctors are correct.