What does it mean to you when I say, “These are my parents”? What would you want to know in order to figure out whether they are, in fact, my parents? Whether they are my genetic progenitors? Whether the woman on the right gestated me? Whether they raised me?We all know that the relationships captured by these questions— the ge-netic relationship, the gestational relationship, and the soc…
Shortly after three-o’clock on 28th July 2017, in a private room of a specialised hospice in suburban London, staffdisconnected the breathing machine that was keeping alive 11-month old infant, Charlie Gard. Lying on either side of him, his parents Connie Yates and Chris Gard held his hands, leaned close, and talked to him. They spoke to him of how proud they were of him. They saw him open hi…