“A UK court has ruled a 19-year-old critically ill female patient with a rare disorder cannot make her own decisions about continuing her medical care, as her family battles her doctors’ desire to stop treatment and pursue end-of-life care…
The Christian Legal Centre, which is advocating for the patient, argues her case is different than Gard’s because she is conscious and able to communicate and argue in her defense…
The hospital told the court the 19-year-old is incapable of making decisions about her future medical care because she is under the ‘delusion’ that her death is not imminent.“