Britain’s High Court executed a sick 8-month-old girl early Monday morning after her parents fought in recent weeks to continue receiving treatment for her mitochondrial disorder.
Indi Gregory was born on February 24 with a rare degenerative mitochondrial disease and the staff at Queen’s Medical Center in Nottingham recently decided to let go of helping the girl and sought to take her off life support.
High Court Justice Robert Peel granted the medical center’s application to stop life support in October, suggesting that despite the parents’ moving “belief in Indi’s resilience, courage, and fortitude,” the medical evidence to terminate the young girl was “unanimous and clear.”
“The doctors painted a terribly bleak and negative picture of Indi’s condition during court proceedings,” Indi’s father, Dean Gregory said. “Indi can definitely experience happiness. She cries like a normal baby. We know she is disabled, but you don’t just let disabled people die. We just want to give her a chance.”
The parents attempted to persuade Court of Appeal judges in London as well as judges at the European Court of Human Rights in France to overturn the decision but ultimately the courts decided that the baby’s life support had to be removed “immediately.”
“Claire and I are again disgusted by another one-sided decision from the judges and the Trust. The whole world is watching and is shocked at how we have been treated,” Gregory said.
“This feels like the latest kick in the teeth, and we will not give up fighting for our daughter’s chance to live until the end,” he added.
From The Blaze:
Indi had been moved to a hospice as opposed to home because Justice Peel reneged on his earlier order last Wednesday. "Indi's life ended at 01:45. Claire and I are angry, heartbroken and ashamed," said Dean Gregory. "The NHS and the courts not only took away her chance to live a longer life, but they also took away Indi's dignity to pass away in the family home where she belonged."
