Our Supreme Court recently chose life (or at least the option of) when it came to the question of pulling the plug on a patient against the desires of the doctors. Now news comes from the fallen cradle of liberty that their Supreme Court has sided with forces of death. In their Judgment (accompanied by this press release), the Court ruled that a hospital could indeed pull the plug against the wishes of the family members:
Britain's highest court has ruled in favor of a hospital that gained court approval to withhold treatment from a terminally ill man despite the family's opposition.
In a unanimous judgment handed down on Wednesday, the Supreme Court ruled that the Court of Appeal was correct in allowing Aintree University Hospital in Liverpool to withhold treatment from David James, 68, who suffered colon cancer, organ failure and a stroke, among other problems.
