A British high court has barred the Jewish parents of a critically ill two-year old girl from taking her to a Jerusalem hospital for more treatment.
The court also ruled that life support treatment for the child can be stopped, despite her parents’ wishes to keep her alive, reported the Daily Mail.
Alta Fixsler had a brain injury at birth, and is not able to breathe, eat or drink on her own.
On Friday, Justice MacDonald of the Family Division of the High Court told Alta’s Orthodox parents that their daughter should be put into palliative care, agreeing with the stance of the Manchester University NHS Foundation Trust hospital that the child has “no prospect of…ever getting better.”
According to the Daily Mail, lawyers for the hospital had asked the court to decide whether it would be in the best interests of the child for her life support regimen to be ceased, and for her to be placed in palliative care until she passes away.
However, Alta’s parents said that ending her treatment, which would lead to her death, contravened their Jewish religious beliefs. They wanted to take her to a hospital in Israel for further life saving care.
Read more at Arutz Sheva.
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What’s the Child’s name so we can daven?
Call the British Embassy in Washington to respectfully protest the treatment of Alta Fixsler which goes against Jewish Halacha and beliefs, and request that her family be allowed to continue treatment or transfer her to Eretz Yisroel.
British Embassy Washington: 1 202 588 6500 email:public.affairsdc@fcdo.gov.uk
4:07, “respectfully”?! This is a murder, and one should not be “respectful” to a murderer.
This is based on the precedent of the Charlie Gard case from a couple of years ago.
That ruling essentially gave total control of what level of care you receive in England to the Doctors and the bureaucrats of the NIH.
This is a necessary outcome of socializing medicine. Without this sort of top-down control of medicine, there would be chronic shortages of all available healthcare (not just the seasonal shortages we see there such as the anesthetics shortage we saw a while back)
Are you being serious about “there would be chronic shortages”? It is obvious that when the parents take the child out of the country (at their own expense, not the tax payer’s expense), there would be LESS burden on the UK system. The parents are the ones asking to reduce UK’s burden of taking care of the child, while the doctors are the ones double-wasting UK taxpayer’s money – first on the lawsuit itself and second on having “palliative care” which still costs the UK taxpayer.
You are clearly ignorant of the details of the case. This decision and the decision of the Charlie Gard case had nothing to do with money and everything to do with law and the best interests of the child. I respect the wishes and religious beliefs of the parents.
Children receive hugely expensive care in the UK for long periods of time if there is a reasonable prospect of some quality of life and without suffering. So socialized medicine is not an issue here. Please be honest in such a tragic case.
This child is blind, deaf, cannot breath or eat without mechanical or human assistance. There is no real evidence of higher brain activity. There is evidence of suffering.
The court were offered no evidence from the foreign hospitals that there were treatment options that would make any medical improvement in the childs life.
So whatever ones beliefs this case comes down to should the childs life and suffering be prolonged with no prospect of improvement so that the parents can have their religious beliefs respected.
This would require the court to agree to knowingly allow continued suffering as a religious exception. I do not think that is moral. You may disagree. But please be honest. This is not about money.
If the child is moved to Israel or the US, then what will happen is they will keep her alive for longer. That is all. She will not get better. She will not hear, see or ever communicate with her parents. Its a terrible tragedy. The hospital, court and parents are all trying to do the right thing.
Childs Name is: אלטא בת אלטא חיה
Alta Bas Alta Chaya
Just wondering if this judge would make the same ruling if the parents were muslim. Because street thugs do throw acid in people’s faces in Britain, among other things, and a judge doesn’t have a 24 7 security detail. The answer is pretty obvious: the nazi judge would be too afraid to rule against someone who can hit back. Apparently, being a nice little law-abiding citizen is a liability in Britain these days. Perhaps it’s time for a re-evaluation, just a brain storm and discussion for now, of the ways the Jewish community in Britain does things. Britain is not a civilized society anymore, and one should adjust his behavior when in an uncivilized place. To paraphrase: when in jungle, do like the jungle-dwellers do.
enough, there have been countless cases like these, in one of them both Muslim parents were MD. You did not care about them and did not protest, did you? The only one which was somehow successful was one in which the vatican was involved and their lawyers on appeal insisted they could offer a higher quality palliative care (whatever that means) and the appeal judge ruled that the child could be admitted to a catholic hospice. The hospice did things according to the parents’ catholic beliefs but was a hospice nevertheless. I have no idea about the medical situation of this child and can’t comment further, but suggesting being jungle beasts speaks about those who do.
I find on the web where Muslim parents insisted the state keep their child in intensive care (but were denied by a judge), but I have not found anywhere where it mentions that the Muslim parents would themselves pay (i.e. take the child out of the system to another country).
But in any case, you really seem to miss the point. When one says “Muslim” – just which kind of “Muslim”? They are as different among themselves as, for example, the Lubavitcher Rebbe was as different from Adam Schiff or George Soros or Rabbi Meir Kahana. So while westernized Muslims (and there even pacifist Muslim sects) may well have been blocked by the courts from taking their child, the topic is the “other” type of Muslim. And with the “other” type of Muslim it never reaches the court because the doctors themselves are so scared they never challenge them in the first.
3:19am, apparently you and I have different interests: mine is a wellbeing of Am Yisroel, yours is a wellbeing of the islamonazis and the government fascists. Despite all your sophistry, the facts are simple: a Jewish child is being murdered by a fascist judge – everything else is irrelevant blabbering. Unfortunately, you refuse to even examine(not necessarily do at this point in time, at least examine) various strategies in order to defend the Jewish community, but that’s exactly the behavior expected from you, as things other than a wellbeing of Am Yisroel hold significance in your life.
Don’t sit in your comfortable American armchair and decide how Jews in other countries should act. It is they who will suffer the consequences of your JDL-inspired rhetoric.
American Jews have a hard time understanding how disadvantaged European Jews are.
Dear 8:28am, it’s a sign of an idiot to switch an argument from a topic discussed to your opponent’s personal circumstances. If you think that it is a proper response to just crawl under a rock when the government kills Jewish children, then make your best argument (which would probably go somewhat along the line of what a judenrate would make somewhere in a WW2 ghetto, but who am I to judge); if you don’t have enough attention span to argue your case, then just shut up. By the way, my opinions are not inspired by JDL; my opinions are inspired by Toras Hashem.
As far as your mentioning of the European Jews being disadvantaged, that is a valid point. The question is what will make you even more disadvantaged: crawling under a rock or trying to develop your defense capabilities and starting to defend yourself? For those with IQ above 75, the answer is the later.
This girl’s extreme life challenges were not caused by a judge. She has severe health issues which led to the court ruling it’s not in her best interest to keep receiving very intrusive medical treatment that keeps her alive. The decision can be appealed and certainly will be, but I hope you understand it’s not about an antisemitic judge murdering a Jewish child. The family’s legal counsel and medical experts agree that there is no foreseeable prospect for improvement.
We should be davening for Moshiach.
How about posting the judge’s address and his family information, and then proceed with strictly peaceful, but very disturbing, protests right in front of his house at odd times at night, peaceful but loud protests at his family members’ places of schooling and employment, peacefully protest him when he goes to a restaurant, peacefully protest him when he goes to a gym, peacefully protest him when he goes on vacation, peacefully protest him when he goes shopping, film his and his family’s every move in public areas and post it online, keep on peacefully protesting for a significant amount of time like a year even if the child passes rachmona litzlan, just make the jerk feel the consequences of a peaceful protest against his nazi ruling. Don’t be a feeble-minded polite-idiot. Gotta fight back when attacked by a bully.
Sick evil wicked judges.
This is what more governmental control does. If they get more power, if they hold the purse strings– they get to decide if and how much you get.
Stop voting for government officials who promise more free stuff. Because TANSTAAFL.