Submitted on Tuesday 24th April 2018
Rejected on Monday 4th June 2018
Current status: Rejected
Rejection code: no-action (see below for details)
Inscribe in law the right of parents to seek alternative medical treatment.
There have been several cases in the media where sick children have been placed on life support in NHS care, which the hospital has then decided to turn off. Parents have been forced to launch battle after battle in the courts to try to save their children.
Parents are the primary care-givers of their children, not the State and not the courts, yet it would be easy to think otherwise because, despite their having been offered treatment abroad, and even being granted residency in other countries, the hospitals have effectively imprisoned such children and refused to allow the parents to avail of such offers of treatment. We petition Parliament to inscribe in law the rights of parents over the treatment of their children and the right to seek care elsewhere when a disagreement over treatment occurs.
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The Government e-Petitions Team gave the following reason:
Petitions need to call on the Government or Parliament to take a specific action.
We're not sure exactly what you mean by "Inscribe in law the right of parents to seek alternative medical treatment".
You could start a new petition explaining clearly what you would like the Government or Parliament to do.
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