Court not in business of ending life, judge says in case of disabled toddler

A High Court judge in England who has been asked to decide whether medics can provide only palliative care to a ''profoundly neurologically disabled'' two-year-old boy has told the youngsters' parents that she is not in the "business of ending life".

Mrs Justice Parker, who is overseeing the dispute at a public hearing in the Family Division of the High Court in London, said she had to decide whether to say that steps need not be taken to keep the child alive.