It seems to me that there is one hugely important principle at stake in the case Jodie and Mary: that in such a tragically difficult situation, it is only the parents who can make the final decision.

In my view it is no one else's business but theirs. It disgusts me the way lawyers, judges, newspaper editors and so many others in Britain presume to make this matter their business, when it is not (even if the law says it is).

Britain was asked to provide medical services, not moral directives. 

Whether we agree with it or not, we should respect the parents decision. 

Mind you, I cannot help noting and shaking my head at the typically dogmatic and irrational attitude of the Catholic Church, which prefers to let both children die rather than to save one by sacrificing the other.

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