Parents in Britain are battling at the nation's high court in the case of Baby RB, a disabled boy whose father is opposing attempts by a hospital trust to deny him life-sustaining treatment. The mother is defending her decision to support the doctors' recommendation to terminate the one-year-old baby's life support. The boy has CMS, a condition that severely limits limb movement and the ability to breathe independently and he has been hospitalized since birth. His father, who is separated from the boy's mother, opposes taking his life by removing the life support.
"RB's mother has sat by her son's bedside every day since he was born," her attorney, Anthony Fairweather, said. "In her mind the intolerable suffering experienced by her son must outweigh her own personal grief should she lose her child." The baby's father and his attorneys argue the child's brain is unaffected by the condition and that he can see, hear, feel and recognize his parents. He argues a tracheotomy, where a hole is made in the neck to allow air to reach his lungs, would allow his son to leave hospital and be cared for at home. LifeNews
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