As reports in recent times have proven, sometimes you just have no control over where and when you go into labour, and the following story proves this in possibly the saddest way.
Little ‘Chloe’ (her name, and those of her parents have not been released) was born in a car during a fierce hail storm in the UK earlier this year, and she suffered brain damage after being starved of oxygen.
The tot has been on life support in intensive care for her entire life, and the Bolton NHS Foundation Trust recently requested a court order to authorise bringing an end to her treatment.
In a very sad update to the case this week, it has been revealed that the court ruled against the parents’ plea to keep their daughter on life support.
Ruling that the child should not be allowed to keep receiving treatment, Mr Justice Peter Jackson said that the only benefit of continued treatment would be ‘prolongation of her life by intensive medical intervention’.
Sitting at the Family Division of Manchester High Court, Mr Justice Jackson added that the child would have no quality of life and no future to look forward to.
He acknowledged that the ‘likely consequence of his decision’ was that the child would soon pass away.
