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British parents arrested for seeking out advanced care for dying son
Posted on 9/1/14 at 7:43 am
Posted on 9/1/14 at 7:43 am
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Patricia King told the BBC on Monday it was an "absolute disgrace" that her son and daughter-in-law were accused of child neglect after they took 5-year-old Ashya from Southhampton General Hospital last week. The family says UK authorities had refused to give Ashya the kind of treatment he needed.
The family has criticized Britain's health care system, saying he needs an advanced treatment option called proton beam therapy and that it wasn't being made available to him.
King's parents were arrested Sunday in southeastern Spain after a European arrest warrant was issued by Interpol at the request of British police. Their son is receiving medical treatment for a brain tumor and after his parents' arrest he was admitted to a Spanish hospital.
King says the authorities are "the ones who are cruel, because they have taken poor little Ashya, who is dying of a brain tumor, and they won't let the parents, my son and daughter-in-law, they won't let them see him at all."
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Posted on 9/1/14 at 7:57 am to Lsut81
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he needs an advanced treatment option called proton beam therapy and that it wasn't being made available to him.
What is the reason they gave for this? I know these proton therapy centers are quite few and far between, so was it a financial decision?
Posted on 9/1/14 at 8:31 am to Lsut81
Arresting parents who take their kids out of one treatment center and to another is major fricked up.
It happened here in the US just a few months ago. Actually happens here more than we would like to admit.
It happened here in the US just a few months ago. Actually happens here more than we would like to admit.
Posted on 9/1/14 at 11:32 am to Lsut81
Let go. Let gov.
Posted on 9/1/14 at 11:51 am to Lsut81
Why do people still hold on to the romantic thought that they can actually posses private property? The government owns everything including your children.
Posted on 9/1/14 at 1:07 pm to Lsut81
The British NHS is very strict on providing treatment if they believe the person will die anyway.
Posted on 9/1/14 at 5:04 pm to Lsut81
So the gov't run healthcare in England said that proton therapy would not work for the child there and the parents decided to take the child to Spain and the state got pissed and stopped them and took the child away fom her parents?
That's what is happening here?
frick. Single payer supporters, this is what you would be getting here in this country too if you had your way you sick and demented assholes.
frick you.
That's what is happening here?
frick. Single payer supporters, this is what you would be getting here in this country too if you had your way you sick and demented assholes.
frick you.
Posted on 9/1/14 at 9:07 pm to Lsut81
They should come to the U.S. without health insurance and see how many proton beams they can get.
Posted on 9/1/14 at 10:08 pm to Lsut81
i just read numerous other news stories on this and they were utterly pathetic. leaving out the most relevant parts of the story--and some of these were updated as recently as a few hours ago.
one story tried to make it sound like they were refusing medical treatment because they're Jehovah's Witnesses--bullshite.
that one and others didn't even mention proton therapy.
whether i agree with these parents or not, i would go totally nuts if i were in their position.
one story tried to make it sound like they were refusing medical treatment because they're Jehovah's Witnesses--bullshite.
that one and others didn't even mention proton therapy.
whether i agree with these parents or not, i would go totally nuts if i were in their position.
Posted on 9/2/14 at 5:51 am to Lsut81
There are no proton centers in the UK, so that also played a role.
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