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November 30, 2023

How the UK’s Medical System Decided a Baby Didn’t Deserve Treatment

The false gods of the National Health Service.

While Israeli hospitals and physicians have proved anything but callous when it comes to caring for infants born in enemy territory, Great Britain’s National Health Service (NHS) has recently shown supreme callousness in the case of eight-month-old Indi Gregory, who was removed from life support and allowed to die of a rare congenital illness despite the objections of her parents. Part of the problem, writes George Weigel, is Britons’ “obsessive and often mawkish devotion” to the “false god” that is the NHS:

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November 30, 2023

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  3. How the Washington Post Turned a Story about Israel Rescuing Palestinian Children into One about Israeli Cruelty

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