| >> mandates whether citizens should receive health care or die, regardless of whether they have the money to pay for it in a foreign country. No, this is incorrect. Alfie Evans was going to die. There was no treatment available for him. No-one, not even foreign doctors, were offering treatment other than end of life care. Alfie is a human, and has human rights, and the paramountcy principle used in English courts mean that his rights are more important to the courts than the parents' rights. Everything has to be done in his best interest, and it wasn't in his best interest to take him abroad to die. The parents had excellent top tier legal advice provided for free. They went through seven legal firms because they weren't being told what they wanted. They eventually got sucked into the Christian Legal Center - an organisation whose advice was so piss-poor they face regulation. https://nearlylegal.co.uk/2018/04/on-the-naughty-step-the-qu... Here's a useful blog post about what actually happened: http://www.transparencyproject.org.uk/alfie-evans-best-inter... (This is written by a mix of people, some of them represent children and families against the state.) Note that an important difference between the US and UK law is that in the UK the doctors propose a plan, and if the parents disagree the doctors need to go to court to get permission. This is reversed in the US. The doctors propose a plan, and if the parents disagree it is they who need to go to court to stop the doctors. |