[jshevek]

It's amazing that the hospital has the authority to deny the parents the ability to bring the child home.

They may be tending to a vegetable, but unless they endanger anyone they are entitled to this.

More importantly - hospitals can make mistakes, and any entity with power might eventually abuse it. It is frightening that the hospital has this much power over this family.

[lazyasciiart]

The hospital is being backed up by the British and European court systems, and it seems pretty reasonable that those groups together all have this power. If the court had disagreed with the hospital then the hospital would not have had this ability.

> unless they endanger anyone they are entitled to this In Britain, the rights of the child are considered to pre-empt the rights of their parent to control them. In this case, the doctors argue (and the courts have agreed) that the parents are asking to do something that will cause pain to the child for no benefit to it.

[DanBC]

> It's amazing that the hospital has the authority to deny the parents the ability to bring the child home.

It doesn't. The courts do, and the parents got good quality legal advice (pro bono, which is a problem, there's an argument for these kinds of cases to have some legal aid).