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🗓️ 26 April 2018
⏱️ 81 minutes
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0:00.0 | Good morning, good afternoon, good evening wherever you are in the world. |
0:04.8 | I'm here in Seattle, Washington and it's time to step out on the high wire. |
0:09.2 | Let's do this. |
0:10.2 | That for a second, your children are not your children. |
0:31.8 | They are actually wards of the state and you have simply been given guardianship by the |
0:37.6 | state. |
0:38.6 | You can't get away at any time because the state actually owns your child. |
0:43.8 | Does that idea make you happy? |
0:45.8 | Does it make you feel safe? |
0:47.6 | Is that how you want your nation and your country to work? |
0:51.7 | That you are superseded by government decisions? |
0:55.5 | And those government decisions can be affected by all sorts of things like even your doctor. |
1:01.2 | Is that the world you want to live in? |
1:03.7 | I believe that is what we have all been contemplating deep inside of ourselves whether we know |
1:10.0 | it or not when we've been watching this story take place. |
1:15.8 | NHS, the National Health Service in the United Kingdom has won another legal battle. |
1:20.4 | Here's a rare undiagnosed neurological condition that doctors have not been able to pinpoint, |
1:25.8 | regardless they concluded Alfie should be removed from life support. |
1:29.8 | This has always been an issue of the parents' right to dictate the future of their own child |
1:35.6 | set against the doctor's view of what is in the interests of that child. |
1:40.0 | Doctors said because they know Alfie would only live a few hours. |
1:44.8 | The toddler has defied that prediction and is still breathing on his own days after life |
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