The UK’s Pro-Life Drama Unfolds
Alfie Evans dies the day before an historic Rosary on the Coast, followed by thousands marching for life through the streets of London on the Feast of the English Martyrs.
he timing couldn’t have been more high profile. Within a few short days, the
question of life issues, long suppressed in one of the world’s most secular countries, suddenly took center stage.
First, 23 month old Alfie Evans was denied permission to seek treatment in Italy by a UK court and died in Liverpool’s Alder Hey hospital on Friday, April 28. Coming less than a year after baby Charlie Gard died in similar circumstances, the UK media reluctantly covered the controversy, releasing a firestorm of contention concerning that society’s respect for life.
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