Baby Charlie Gard, who has a rare genetic disease keeping him on life support, has been granted permanent U.S. residence, opening the door to receiving an experimental medical treatment that could save his life.
Gard was born in August with mitochondrial DNA depletion syndrome, and his parents have been fighting to get him access to the care he needs.
His parents raised money to cover the costs of the treatment, but doctors and European courts argued that he should ‘die in dignity.’
Congress has now stepped in, with Gard and his parents being granted residency by Congress.
.@HouseAppropsGOP voted today to give lawful permanent residence to #CharlieGard so he can come to the US for world class medical care pic.twitter.com/FUTbfeZSr4
— Rep. Kevin Yoder (@RepKevinYoder) July 18, 2017
We just passed amendment that grants permanent resident status to #CharlieGard and family so Charlie can get the medical treatment he needs.
— Jeff Fortenberry (@JeffFortenberry) July 18, 2017
Via CNBC:
The ongoing battle for treatment for Charlie Gard has taken a new turn, with a U.S. amendment being passed Tuesday granting the terminally ill British baby “legal permanent residency,” in the U.S.
Gillian Christensen, press secretary for the United States Citizenship and Immigration Services, told CNBC via e-mail that: “We are aware of the amendment and, should the legislation be passed by Congress, stand ready to act as necessary.”
Charlie Gard’s parents Connie Yates and Chris Gard have been fighting a lengthy court battle against doctors from the Great Ormond Street Hospital for Children in London, who want to switch off their son’s life support. Instead, Gard’s parents want him to seek experimental treatment in the U.S. They lost their appeal in the European Court of Human Rights at the end of June, who refused to intervene in British courts.
President Trump earlier this month expressed his support for the terminally ill baby, offering any help that America might provide.
If we can help little #CharlieGard, as per our friends in the U.K. and the Pope, we would be delighted to do so.
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) July 3, 2017
The Charlie Gard case has been a study in the perils of government-run health care, in which medical professionals and court systems determine that a child’s life might not be worth saving.
People keep telling me that the Charlie Gard case is extremely complicated but it does not seem complicated at all.
— Ross Douthat (@DouthatNYT) July 19, 2017
Gard’s parents know what’s best for him, and if they want to try saving his life using their own finances, then they absolutely have that right.
Are you happy for Charlie Gard and his parents? Tell us what you think about this case below!
So. Who or what army is going to liberate him from the hospital holding him hostage?
That’s our President! Thank you President Trump Sir! You are a warrior and a super HERO. Finally a President Americans can be proud of after 8 disastrous years of a Manchurian PUPPET candidate. DRAIN THAT SWAMP SIR!
Bravo. God help him. May the experimental treatments and Doctors in the US do their best to pu him through for his parents who have fought so haard for him. God Bless them. i pray for him.
LittleCharlie is an important part of his parents life and God placed Donald J. Trump in little Charlies life for such a reason as this. I say,”Thank You President Trump for following the direction God has lead you in. You will be a blessing to Little Charlie and his parents.” We do not know the plans of God, but we must step up when HE speaks to our hearts. If money is an issue in this God will supply it, as HE supplies all of our needs. I am so proud of President Trump and First Lady Melania, they are special people that God placed in our lives for this time in our great need and our nations great need. My prayer today is that God will continue to bless little Charlie, his parents, President Trump, First Lady Melania, America and her people. I ask the Holy Spirit to visit each American today and open their eyes and hearts to the pure beautiful love of our Heavenly Father and accept HIS precious Son as their personal Saviour. Please Heavenly Father clear out our wonderful country of all evil, corruption and bring the prosperity to each of us that is needed so badly, as was promised in your prophecy given by Kim Clement. I ask this in Jesus Holy Name. Amen!!
CAUSE THAT’S WHAT AMERICA DOES. Comes to the aid of all, no matter how small, rich or poor or status in life. WELCOME TO AMERICA LITTLE CHARLIE. May God grant you a long, healthy, happy life.
jeansandjacketrequired, regardless of your belief in my occupation, try googling mitochondria/organelle/ATP and lastly mitochondrial depletion syndrome, read and learn.
While you whinge about your tax dollars, you did vote for this NH debacle. I have lived in London on and off for 40 years. Most people with a catastrophic illness, who need immediate care, by the best physicians go to private hospitals and doctors outside the NHS. its either that, or they go abroad to seek care. Charlie Guard is a human being, and as such, deserves the right to live, in spite of the cks of findings of the money men who determined his medical cost exceeded his worth. That smacks of national socialism. Remember the nazis?
What?! Socialized medical didn’t want to help this family. Their excuse is always to allow someone die with dignity. How about living with dignity. I’m glad were helping him and his family.
Jeansandjackerrequired, your background and cynicism are showing. The child is not brain dead, is not dependent upon machines for his air or movement. He shows emotion, sleep and wakes, is still able to grab his parents hands, smile, makes baby sounds, still poops like a child, cries when in pain.
Is that dead in your mind/ did you see the assorted videos his parents have released?
Do you know what mitochondrial DNA depletion syndrome is. I do.
For your assistance, this is what it means. In the cells from our mothers is an organelle called a mitochondria. That organelle takes the products of digestion, packs them into ATPs, and they are then attached to the blood during its trip to be oxygenated thru the lungs. ATPs are factually Adenosine Tri-phosphates, (primarily sugars) and are the food our muscles, tissues and bones can digest.
Charlie has problems with the production of these organelles. Consequently, he is tube fed, and w/o this action has a limited life expectancy. Most infants with this disease are deceased by the time they are Charlie’s age.
He seems to be a fighter, and it seems he has just enough functioning mitochondria to allow him to gain weight, get bigger, and progress. His ability to thrive makes for possibilities not available to those who can do neither.
This is what you call dead. I call that impaired. As a physician for 30 plus years, where there is life, there is hope. Even for you sir.
Why should I pay for Charlie’s care through MY TAXES!
I got to agree with former Republican congressman and current top radio host Joe Walsh… Sorry Charlie Gard: your sad story doesn’t obligate me or anybody else to pay for somebody else’s health care.
To: Naysayers, i.e. Jeanjacket/etc. – You are an idiot – you’d rather pay thousands of dollars for operations and hormone treatment for some poor, confused person who thinks they are the gender they are NOT than pay for the life of a child, who, if he does recover, could someday contribute to society…pay taxes, even? What those who tout abortion, euthanasia (essentially that they wanted to do to Charlie Gard) as a “solution” do not realize is that society is lessened, morally and otherwise bankrupted, when we decide life and death in these matters. Have you ever considered what you’d want done to YOU if you were little Charlie Gard? Have you considered that, someday, near (but not at) the end of your own life, some doctor could look at your old, poor, tired body and decide that you, too, are not worthy of medical assistance…?
NOBODY has asked YOU to pay for Charlie. Over a million dollars has been raised, independently for his care. Apparently, they believe. Furthermore, even if he does die, perhaps the treatment will help another. According to experts, he IS NOT dead and has a 11 to 56% survival rate. I betting, if you had a terminal illness, YOU would take those odds. Of course, like many lefty’s, what is good for YOU, is not good for others. How do you exist with such a “cold heart?”
jeansandjacketrequireds, I guess you aren’t smart enough to READ THE ENTIRE ARTICLE? Especially the part where it states the PARENTS have already SAVED ENOUGH MONEY TO PAY FOR THEIR SON’S CARE!? Also, it is EXPERIMENTAL, so I am doubting there will be much charge anyway as they will use this case to further their studies on this very special condition!
What the hell is wrong with people that graduate from school with NO READING COMPREHENSION SKILLS AND NO ABILITY TO HAVE LOGICAL REASONING?!
I doubt very much you are really a physician.
Charlie Gard is DEAD. Deal with it!
If this baby was a poor American he would have been left to die by the GOP already.
Have you heard of miculas, I do. My husband should have been dead, they lost him for 12 minutes. You have to believe that the child live with the treatment. If the child lives,it will be by Gods hands and modern medicine. I pray that the child live, and I pray that he will have a full recovery. So don’t count him out.
Oh STOP your stupid and ignorant leftist remarks. They are worthless. Excuse me, YOU are WORTHLESS!
A life is worth saving. Thank you President Trump and God bless you!! Our prayers go out to Charlie Gard and his family!!
The alleged “complexity” of the baby´s case reduces to one basic element: the power-dependent medics who treat the baby´s family demand to retain control. That´s all.
Reminds of the power-dependent MDs in Austria of about 200 years ago that drove Ignatz Semmelweis to suicide. That is, after removing his license, his source of income, loss of family, forced into an insane asylum and finally, suicide. Semmelweis invented and initiated the procedure of washing hands between childbirth patients. However, he did not give credit for his masterpiece to his senior MDs. The same basic greed that has led to hundreds of MDs being punished with the Semmelweis treatment for using natural methods to cure “cancer”. “Cancer” which two female scientists separately traced to parasites twenty years ago. Currently, Dr. Al Sears reports similar information when a cancer “outbreak” is discovered in a patient.
Power-addiction. The basic problem of all NAZI-types that comprise “medicine”, who use nitrogen extracts to kill 97% of patients within 5 years. Hiding patients´ deaths with cancer association causation when death was due to poison, continues to being in big dollars for the continued fraud. Cadillacs and sport cars, million-dollar houses and the fraudulent “search for a cancer cure” still qualifies for headlines and huge grants for the impressive, Oncology death mausoleums and the fancy equipment that produces no cures.
you are a special kind of idiot
Thank you for your profound response.
Profoundly suggestive of an Oncology, subterfuge agent.
God Bless President Trump for his quick action and the incredibly swift Citizenship for Charlie Gard and his Parents! God Speed Charlie Gard and his Specialists and Doctors in their endeavors on Charlie’s and his parents behalf! Perhaps, the “globalists/elite”, bureaucrats in the globalist “EU”, saw the negative press and image they were projecting of their “anti-humanity”, “anti-parent”, “anti-Christianity”, globalist agenda and thought twice about it.
Charlie Gard is already DEAD. Deal with it!
Your are the one that is dead. Deal with it.
That is one thing that Trump did right so far.
I am glad to see this happening God truly has given this child a second chance he did not want this child home yet. that being said I truly hope this medical treatment help the little one please don’t make him go through life in pain please don’t allow this dear Lord.I would rather see him in the Lords arms rather then him living a life of assistance ! now this may sound cruel but let’s see maybe this doctor can perform a miracle Good luck little man America is praying for you I promise we are you are in our hearts and minds go with God and to the parents we love you also but please make the right decisions when they arise.