{"id":770698,"date":"2022-08-07T16:29:30","date_gmt":"2022-08-07T16:29:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/society\/2022\/aug\/07\/archie-battersbee-family-says-no-parent-must-go-through-this-again"},"modified":"2022-08-07T16:29:30","modified_gmt":"2022-08-07T16:29:30","slug":"archie-battersbee-family-says-no-parent-must-go-through-this-again","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/2022\/08\/07\/archie-battersbee-family-says-no-parent-must-go-through-this-again\/","title":{"rendered":"Archie Battersbee family says \u2018no parent must go through this again\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"

Relatives say they want changes to how life-support cases are dealt with after 12-year-old died following withdrawal of care<\/p>

Relatives of Archie Battersbee, who died after his life support treatment was withdrawn<\/a> on Saturday, have called for change in the way such cases are handled, saying they \u201cwant something good to come out of this tragedy\u201d.<\/p>

The 12-year-old\u2019s parents fought a bitter legal battle to try to stop doctors, who believed Archie to be brain stem dead, from removing treatment. After that failed, they began a fresh legal challenge \u2013 also unsuccessful \u2013 for him to be moved to a hospice<\/a> to die.<\/p> Continue reading...<\/a>\n

This post was originally published on Human rights | The Guardian<\/a>. <\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Relatives say they want changes to how life-support cases are dealt with after 12-year-old died following withdrawal of careRelatives of Archie Battersbee, who died after his life support treatment was withdrawn on Saturday, have called for change in t…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6227,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1549,2944,6,640,520,1314],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/770698"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6227"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=770698"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/770698\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=770698"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=770698"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=770698"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}