TEL AVIV (CWN) - An Israeli judge ruled on Sunday that the parents of a terminally-ill boy could refuse life-prolonging surgery for their son who will eventually die from kidney disease anyway.
District Judge Uri Goren overturned a lower court order that said the 8-year-old boy, who is severely mentally retarded, must receive the surgery. “I have no doubt that if the child could talk he would want to be released from the hard life that was forced on him through no fault of his own, “Goren said, according to the newspaper Haaretz.