Weekly News #14
A woman fighting to stop doctors ending life support treatment for her sick 11-month-old son has told a judge that God should decide when he dies.
Specialists at King's College Hospital said giving further treatment to Isaiah Haastrup is "futile, burdensome and not in his best interests". They said he is profoundly disabled, but can feel pain. Isaiah's mother, Takesha Thomas, and father Lanre Haastrup, both 36, want treatment to continue. Ms Thomas, a Pentecostal Christian, said: "For me, I don't think it is right to say who should live or who should die. If God wants to take the person, He will." She told the judge: "When I speak to him he will respond, slowly, by opening one eye. "I see a child who is injured. He needs love. He needs care. I have it. I can can give it."
This is a really delicate piece because it touches on the love and relationship between a parent and their child. This is sensitive topic because this builds much sympathy across all media types when seeing this post. To the public, we see this as something that must be taken care of by the government or acting bodies. This is because as a parent, certainly a mother, they do not want to be split from their own born child. Similar stories have been reported on this matter but i was unable to get up facts and statistics.
In the UK 1 in 50 babies are born with a disability. From one point of view this can be seen as not as big a problem to put more money towards treatment for disabled children. But what some people don't realise that the government covers a lot of funding for children. This is why some point of views may say that the government isn't as guilty to stop wanting to fund this child.
This is a really delicate piece because it touches on the love and relationship between a parent and their child. This is sensitive topic because this builds much sympathy across all media types when seeing this post. To the public, we see this as something that must be taken care of by the government or acting bodies. This is because as a parent, certainly a mother, they do not want to be split from their own born child. Similar stories have been reported on this matter but i was unable to get up facts and statistics.
In the UK 1 in 50 babies are born with a disability. From one point of view this can be seen as not as big a problem to put more money towards treatment for disabled children. But what some people don't realise that the government covers a lot of funding for children. This is why some point of views may say that the government isn't as guilty to stop wanting to fund this child.
This is a really good piece of work and interesting to see that religion plays a big part in this as she doesn't want the baby to go unless God takes him. To improve you could have put your opinion in at the end and put the source link in but overall it is really informative.
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