WhiteCat, Charlie's parents have repeatedly rejected medical information. They apparently do not believe he is non-responsive or terminally ill. GOSH deals with many incredibly sad cases of end-of-life care, and there is absolutely no evidence that their explanations to parents are ever 'this is happening, end of story'. Given the situation, it's overwhelmingly likely that all justifications have been made to Charlie's parents, but they simply don't accept them.
No wonder this case is used to scare Americans re social health care.
The words 'used' and 'scare' being the key points.
One point which almost never seems to be mentioned in any of the CA rhetoric is whether Charlie is suffering. It's always: what is there to lose, by transporting him home? What is there to lose by taking him to Italy, to America?
The loss is days, weeks and possibly months of an incapacitated infant continuing to experience pain.
'The Great Ormond Street Team believe that Charlie can probably experience pain, but is unable to react to it in a meaningful way. Their evidence was that being ventilated, being suctioned, living as Charlie does, are all capable of causing pain.'
The only response anyone's ever got to this with Charlie's Army is dismissive crap about 'well, if he's in pain, the hospital should be done for neglect'. There is absolutely no recognition of (or interest in) the complex issue of ensuring adequate and constant pain relief for an infant who cannot speak or even flinch; whose responses to procedures and seizures are mainly measured by brain activity and heartrate. There is no 'pain OFF' button for non-communicative people with complex medical needs. You cannot just pump someone full of morphine or other drugs: you risk complicating existing conditions and creating new ones. There is a limit to how much you can safely do, and GOSH clearly have reason to believe they have reached this limit.
The fact that GOSH have let this go through all the trauma, disruption and expense of court cases is that the medical professionals there truly believe that there is good reason to assume Charlie is suffering. Read the High Court decision and see how many medical opinions, from multiple institutions, have validated this.
Send him here, send him there, try this: what's there to lose? CA keep accusing medical professionals of murder, and yet are wilfully oblivious to and dismissive of a child's prolonged suffering. It may be certain religions' beliefs that earthly suffering is inconsequential in the greater scheme of things, but that's not the theology on which we run our hospitals and courts.