Daily Mail
It’s come to this
Sick children are being discharged from NHS hospitals to die at home or in hospices on controversial ‘death pathways’.
Until now, end of life regime the Liverpool Care Pathway was thought to have involved only elderly and terminally-ill adults.
But the Mail can reveal the practice of withdrawing food and fluid by tube is being used on young patients as well as severely disabled newborn babies.
One doctor has admitted starving and dehydrating ten babies to death in the neonatal unit of one hospital alone.
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Very Progressive.
forest on November 29, 2012 at 11:23 AM
Preview of full-blown 0-care..?
affenhauer on November 29, 2012 at 11:24 AM
Good gosh!
WE have got to see to it our states will not have bhocare anyplace near their citizens! If you don’t think that someplace in bhocare this horror isn’t in it, you might give a re-think?
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letget on November 29, 2012 at 11:25 AM
Sacrifices need to be made in order to have a really good health care system, but these eerily seem like human sacrifices.
But, hey, nobody said having a superlative health care system was easy.
blink on November 29, 2012 at 11:25 AM
Post Birth Abortion
portlandon on November 29, 2012 at 11:29 AM
Death panels. Whooda thunk it.
Paul-Cincy on November 29, 2012 at 11:31 AM
Coming to America has such a menacing tone any more…
astonerii on November 29, 2012 at 11:32 AM
And Sarah Palin was excoriated for her “DEATH PANELS” comment…
Everyday the truth comes out, a little bit late but nonetheless.
katy on November 29, 2012 at 11:35 AM
Progress.
WeekendAtBernankes on November 29, 2012 at 11:36 AM
Especially chilling in light of the fact that The Man (a.k.a. Preezy 0bama), while a state senator, voted against a bill that would have protected babies lucky enough to survive an abortion. He’d rather have the attending butch… I mean, doctor protected from lawsuits and allow the child to scream itself to death in a linen closet.
CurtZHP on November 29, 2012 at 11:36 AM
Lean Forward!
Makes it easier to push you into the grave.
Bishop on November 29, 2012 at 11:37 AM
Coming soon
vcferlita on November 29, 2012 at 11:39 AM
Yeah. And now I think I will go pound my fist through a wall in an effort to contain my rage.
This effing jackass is a doctor, he would know just how awful it is for anyone, much less a baby, to die of starvation and dehydration and yet he assisted such atrocities.
Bring this to America and more than just babies are going to die, the people who support and enable it will to; we aren’t passive British cowards.
Bishop on November 29, 2012 at 11:40 AM
Brave New World.
UltimateBob on November 29, 2012 at 11:40 AM
Hideous.
The team that’s fine with abortion not only won’t put up a struggle over this, they’ll cheer it on.
TexasDan on November 29, 2012 at 11:40 AM
Frightening story – makes you just want to cry.
jake-the-goose on November 29, 2012 at 11:41 AM
Pretty soon they’ll be running experiments on them as well.
Hey, they’re going to die anyway.
TexasDan on November 29, 2012 at 11:42 AM
I’m surprised they didn’t harvest them for parts as well.
portlandon on November 29, 2012 at 11:42 AM
Every one of you S.O.B.s who support a woman’s “choice” to kill her baby in the womb is responsible for this.
Cheap life is cheap.
Why don’t those parents just put a bullet in the back of those babies’ heads? Too violent? Just a tad too far? Can’t find a gun in England? Intentionally withdrawing food and water from a baby is killing it just like shooting it is.
Your hands. They have blood on them.
cptacek on November 29, 2012 at 11:44 AM
I don’t know if this happens with babies in this country, but I do know that when an adult goes into hospice care in this country, food and water are generally withheld, because nourishment and hydration are considered medical care. When someone goes in to hospice, does the disease kill them, or do they starve to death? Supposedly they will die anyway, and the theory is it shouldn’t matter so long as they don’t suffer. Doctors make diagnostic mistakes, though. I’m not sure hospice is all that different from the Liverpool Care Pathway.
mbs on November 29, 2012 at 11:44 AM
Obama Voter: “Well that sucks for the baby, but I want me free healthcare”;
ChunkyLover on November 29, 2012 at 11:45 AM
Yours is the passion for life
jake-the-goose on November 29, 2012 at 11:45 AM
Yes. 100%. Unapologetic for it, too.
cptacek on November 29, 2012 at 11:46 AM
Sure why not? Grab their organs too, maybe keep them alive for the purpose of harvesting stem cells.
People sometimes ask my why I am the way I am, and this is why; these people are out there.
Bishop on November 29, 2012 at 11:49 AM
Daily Mail. Will we start seeing Onion headlines soon?
mythicknight on November 29, 2012 at 11:51 AM
When things like this start to become expected here, there are going to be a lot more “John Q” scenarios in hospitals.
cptacek on November 29, 2012 at 11:54 AM
Someone please inform me why this is not ‘premeditated murder’?
katy on November 29, 2012 at 11:57 AM
I think this is only for comatose patients and other extreme situations. Surely, you’re not claiming that the average, conscience hospice patient doesn’t eat meals.
blink on November 29, 2012 at 11:58 AM
It could never happen here (to govt employees’ babies).
Akzed on November 29, 2012 at 11:59 AM
My husband is a hospice nurse, and I can tell you that food is not routinely withdrawn. Hospice in the US is a nice bucket to put a dying patient into, where palliative care can be done without worrying about the liability from addiction. Once you have enough drugs in you, you aren’t very hungry—but the pain from cancer and end-stage liver failure isn’t all that conducive to an appetite either. Hospice is not the Liverpool Murder Pathway
Sekhmet on November 29, 2012 at 12:01 PM
Progressives never really gave up on that Eugenics thing.
RadClown on November 29, 2012 at 12:01 PM
This sort of thing is probably in BarkCare, buried somewhere in that 2,800 page monstrosity.
We have to actually pass it to find out what’s in it. The “finding out” is going to be fun that’s for sure.
Bishop on November 29, 2012 at 12:03 PM
NHS spending is currently unaffordable for the UK, executing patients is simply the socialist interpretation of fiscal prudence.
CorporatePiggy on November 29, 2012 at 12:03 PM
This is not new. A very, very long time ago, I was given 24 hours to cry, after being born 10 days premature.
No cry, no care.
OldEnglish on November 29, 2012 at 12:05 PM
Tortured. Murdered.
Only God can help us. Is He willing?
davidk on November 29, 2012 at 12:07 PM
The world has lost its soul
blatantblue on November 29, 2012 at 12:07 PM
That woman just gets proved right more and more every day.
Odysseus on November 29, 2012 at 12:22 PM
If the Brits grow up and fix their laws so actual Euthanasia is legal, then they wouldn’t have to starve dying patients for up to 10 days.
They can just use a painless injection.
lester on November 29, 2012 at 12:22 PM
I had a family member go into hospice last year. She was still conscious when she started. We were told that nutrition and hydration were considered medical care, and would be withheld. We insisted she be given IV fluids (she had trouble taking anything by mouth due to nausea, but she was terribly thirsty). Several hospice organizations refused to take her case unless we agreed to withhold fluids, saying it would just prolong her suffering, but we insisted and she ended up doing in-patient hospice at the hospital, with IV fluids. Once they increased her morphine, she lost consciousness fairly quickly, and she only lasted 2 weeks after they stopped nutrition, but she did continue to receive IV fluids, by our request, although it was only a small amount. So perhaps if they can eat and drink by mouth it’s different, I’m not sure.
mbs on November 29, 2012 at 12:26 PM
What progressives and muslems have in common – both are part of death cults.
Rebar on November 29, 2012 at 12:28 PM
“Death Pathways” is a pretty cynical term. Hey, kids like pathways so this sounds kind of fun.
Flange on November 29, 2012 at 12:30 PM
It’s always fascinating to me how quiet the “shut up about abortion/euthanasia/Obamacare” people (supposedly on our side) are in these threads.
Doomberg on November 29, 2012 at 12:30 PM
Perhaps she only lasted 2 weeks because nutrition was stopped?
cptacek on November 29, 2012 at 12:40 PM
If the Brits grow up and fix their laws so actual Euthanasia is legal, then they wouldn’t have to starve dying patients for up to 10 days.They can just use a painless injection.
lester on November 29, 2012 at 12:22 PM
I do concede your point. If you make murder legal, it is much easier to murder people.
DrAllecon on November 29, 2012 at 12:42 PM
That was supposed to be quoted, but frankly I like it better that way.
DrAllecon on November 29, 2012 at 12:42 PM
I think it is.
I’m sorry that they put your family member and your family through all of that.
blink on November 29, 2012 at 12:47 PM
Think of it as post-birth abortions. Can’t have those sick babies sucking up govt funds that could go toward mking sure everyone has a cell phone and internet access.
katiejane on November 29, 2012 at 12:54 PM
LCP… Liverpool Care Pathway.
It sounds so… caring.
Talk about Orwellian.
Hill60 on November 29, 2012 at 12:56 PM
And the soulless ghouls show up just on time.
CurtZHP on November 29, 2012 at 1:01 PM
This sent shivers through my body…imagine, witnessing starving your child to death…I almost can’t believe it, but then, how many babies are pulled out of the womb and left to die because the woman doesn’t want to be inconvenienced…I know a hundred years from now we will be looked upon as savages, not unlike we look at Aztec’s for their rituals.
right2bright on November 29, 2012 at 1:02 PM
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