Specialists at King’s College Hospital said giving further intensive care treatment to 11-month-old Isaiah Haastrup was “futile, burdensome and not in his best interests”.
They had asked a judge to give them the go-ahead to provide only palliative care.
Isaiah’s mother, Takesha Thomas, and father Lanre Haastrup, who are both 36 and from Peckham, south-east London, wanted treatment to continue.
Thomas told the private trial last week: “I am a Pentecostal Christian.
“For me, I don’t think it is right to say who should live or who should die.”
“If God wants to take the person, He will.”
Mr Justice MacDonald on Monday ruled that doctors could stop providing life-support treatment.
The judge, who had analysed evidence at a trial in the Family Division of the High Court in London earlier this month, said he had reached his decision with “profound sadness”.
Mr Haastrup said he and Miss Thomas were disappointed and would discuss the judge’s ruling with lawyers.
Barrister Fiona Paterson, who represented King’s College Hospital NHS Foundation Trust at hearings, had told Mr Justice MacDonald how Isaiah was born at King’s College Hospital on February 18 2017 and was severely disabled.
She said nobody could understand the pain and suffering Isaiah’s parents had endured.
But she said overwhelming medical evidence showed that stopping…
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