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Press Room News / Alfie Evans
On day before Father’s Day, Tom Evans speaks out about Alfie
By Dave Andrusko Editor’s note. My family and I will be on our vacation through September 7. I will occasionally add new items but for the most part we will repost “the best of the best” — the stories our readers have told us they especially liked. As best I can tell,...
Alfie Evans and the Shocking UK Gosport Independent Panel Report
By Nancy Valko The Baby Alfie Evans’s case this year shocked the world but now we learn his forced death against his parents’ wishes follows a legal and healthcare nightmare in the UK. Some of us expressed concerns years ago about the UK’s “Liverpool Care Pathway”...
Hundreds of well-wishers say goodbye to Alfie, the “little warrior” who died five days after his ventilator was disconnected
By Dave Andrusko It is a tribute not only to “Alfie’s Army” but also to all those who came to Liverpool today that the privacy of Tom Evans and Kate James was respected as they conducted a private funeral service for their son. Alfie died April 28, five days after...
“Alfie Evans: the boy who brought the world together”
By Dave Andrusko The last months of Alfie Evans' all-too-brief life were played out in the public domain. How could it have been otherwise when Tom Evans and Kate James were fighting the entire judicial and medical establishments in Great Britain to win what ought to...
From “Choice” To “No Choice”–Lessons from the Baby Alfie Evans Case
By Nancy Valko Defending the UK High Court’s order allowing Alder Hay Children’s Hospital to withdraw life support from Baby Alfie Evans and refusing to even allow his parents to take him home, Dr. Ranj Singh of the UK National Health Service was quoted saying, “This...
“Conspiracy Against Life”
By Chelsy Gomez In recent weeks, the eyes of the world were drawn to Liverpool, England as the life of 23-month-old Alfie Evans hung in the balance. Despite drawing support from across the world, including from Pope Francis and the Italian and Polish governments,...
Carrie Buck and the old eugenics, Alfie Evans and the new eugenics
By Dave Andrusko About once a week my search for “Today in History” turns up a reminder, positive or negative, of something that pro-lifers should carefully ponder. Ninety one years ago today, in Buck v. Bell, the United States Supreme Court upheld a Virginia law that...
Alfie Evans: the NHS, from the cradle to the grave?
Does the controversial case represent the failure of Britain’s public health system? By Ann Farmer Following the death at Alder Hey Hospital of little Alfie Evans, who had a rare neurological condition, Christina Odone recalled her brother Lorenzo, who at six years...
Alfie Evans a Victim of the Technocracy
By Wesley J. Smith The death of Alfie Evans, forced off life support by doctors, bioethicists, and judges — strangers — and denied the right to have his care decisions made by his parents, brings health care to a crossroads. For years we have been told that...