Charlie's parents, Connie Yates and Chris Gard, are expected to join supporters in a rally on Sunday near Great Ormond Street hospital where he is being treated. Our special thanks goes to everyone in America and everyone in Rome who has supported us and who believes that Charlie deserves this treatment as we believe he rightly does.
Great Ormond Street Hospital's statement was the latest twist in a case that has raised hard bioethical and legal questions, and has caught the attention of Pope Francis and United States President Donald Trump. There is an up to 10 per cent chance [of success] and we feel that is a chance worth taking.
In a joint statement, they said: "Our bill will support Charlie's parents" right to choose what is best for their son, by making Charlie a lawful permanent resident in the United States in order for him to receive treatments that could save his life.
"If he's still fighting, we're still fighting", she said. The Vatican's children's hospital also offered to treat the child, but the move was barred by "legal reasons".
A London children's hospital on Friday asked a British court to assess new evidence about the condition of Charlie Gard, a terminally ill baby at the center of a legal battle that has drawn global attention.
It led to Charlie's doctors on Friday requesting a new High Court hearing to assess whether the boy's life should be spared.
GOSH said it will now be for the High Court to make its judgement on the facts.
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"And we believe, in common with Charlie's parents, it is right to explore this evidence", the hospital said in a statement.
"That very institution hired to care for Charlie is trying to strip him of his rights and his parents of their rights to even just take him to get a second opinion".
Britain's justice secretary says the government won't play a role in deciding the medical treatment of a terminally ill baby whose parents want to take him to the US for experimental treatment.
Meanwhile, U.S. Representatives Brad Wenstrup (R-OH) and Trent Franks (R-AZ) have offered legislation to grant citizenship to Charlie so he can come to the U.S. for experimental treatment. Hospital administrators had kept him for months whilst fighting Charlie's parents in the High Court, Court of Appeal, Supreme Court, and even the European Court of Human Rights for permission to withdraw his life support without their consent.
"As ministers and as a Government we have no role to play in the Charlie Gard case, as would be the case in any other proceeding in court".
The hospital said on Friday that it had not changed its view that Charlie had experienced "catastrophic and irreversible brain damage" and the experimental treatment, known as nucleoside therapy, "would be futile and would prolong Charlie's suffering".
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