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Lifesite News (22 Aug 05) reports: "Minutes from a meeting of the Portsmouth Trust board said 'The Trust would be prepared to go to the courts rather than send Charlotte to the intensive care unit. From past experience the court would agree with the doctors.'" On 25th August the Appeal Court duly backed the doctors, in spite of the evidence of Charlotte's recent progress. Judge Hedley will review his original decision in October. Fortunately Charlotte is now less likely to need ventilation. The Portsmouth Hospital Trust is the one criticised by the European Court in the case of David Glass. Baroness Warnock, mother of the Human Fertilisation and Embryology Act 1990, was quoted in the Daily Mail on 6 June 05 as stating that babies born prematurely should be allowed to die rather than risk growing up disabled. "Last year, she called for elderly people who are becoming a burden on their families or the state to 'sacrifice' themselves. "Julia Quenzler, of SOS-NHS - Patients in Danger, said 'She wants the elderly to do the decent thing. Now she is going to the other extreme and attacking our most vulnerable children.'"
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