To:    letters@thetimes.co.uk
Re:    Charlotte: the baby saved to be abandoned
Date:  Tuesday 17 October 06

What I have heard about the court battle to force doctors to keep the prematurely born and severely handicapped Charlotte alive having cost the taxpayer half a million pounds suggests to me who the real culprits in this tragic saga are: the lawyers who fought the case and to whom most of this money, no doubt, went; and, of course, the tabloid press, who fed off the story like vultures (as it is their nature and business to do).
 
The couple themselves, it seems, are not the brightest or most mature of people. They did not behave responsibly (first fighting for and then abandoning their daughter), but far more culpable are the "clever people", no doubt, pillars of respectable British society, who exploited them for their own "moral" and financial advantage.
 
 
 
 



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