While the western world has been obsessed this week with a baby boy born into a family that to be perfectly honest lives in ultimate luxury while producing nothing but a tourism industry and fodder for gossip magazines, another little boy - born to parents who work hard to provide a happy home without need or desire for celebrity - was denied nourishment and life support by order of the High Court in Great Britain.
But few people outside of England, it seems, heard or ever bothered to hear about Alfie Hastings, who had a severe brain condition.
His parents and others tried their very best to save his life, but the judges of Britain decreed that Alfie was a lost cause and a drain on the system. And so Alfie should die.
Which, he now has. As of this past hour or so.
Louis and Alfie. Baby boys born in the same country. One will never know want or hunger or discomfort, the other has been taken from a Mommy and Daddy who loved him very much and did everything they could to give him a fighting chance to live.
If the situation had been reversed, and Prince William and Kate given birth to a child with the same medical condition as Alfie Evans... would the British courts have ordered and enforced a mandate that their baby boy must die?
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