Archie Battersbee: Appeal judges rule doctors can stop providing life-support treatment
Doctors can lawfully stop providing life-support treatment to Archie Battersbee, appeal judges have ruled.
Today , three Court of Appeal judges refused an appeal put forward by Archie's family that his treatment should continue. Sir Andrew McFarlane, Lady Justice King and Lord Justice Peter Jackson had considered arguments at a hearing at the Court of Appeal in London last week. Judges had been asked to postpone the ruling but refused. A lawyer representing Archie’s parents said his mother Hollie Dance thought her son had been trying to breathe independently.
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