Funeral of brain-damaged baby Isaiah Haastrup to take place

Boy’s parents fought legal battle in UK courts against life support being withdrawn

The funeral of Isaiah Haastrup, the profoundly brain-damaged baby at the centre of a right-to-life court battle, is taking place on Thursday.

Isaiah, who sustained a catastrophic brain injury at birth, will be laid to rest three months after he died when doctors at King’s College hospital in south London took him off the ventilator he had been on since birth.

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from Children | The Guardian https://ift.tt/2Jh67ii