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British Hospital Declines Vatican’s Offer to Treat Charlie Gard

Multiple courts have granted the hospital permission to remove the terminally ill infant from life support.
Source: Alessandra Tarantino / AP

The British hospital that plans to remove 11-month-old Charlie Gard from life support declined an offer from a Vatican-owned pediatric hospital to treat the terminally ill infant on Wednesday, citing legal barriers. A day earlier, the Vatican’s Bambino Gesu Children’s Hospital to accept Charlie into their care, promising to keep the infant on life support and allow his parents,

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