Mother of a critically-ill baby Charlotte Wyatt, Debbie, leaves the Hight court of Justice in London. (AFP)

    BEIJING, April 22 -- A British judge has upheld a court order allowing doctors to let a critically ill baby die if she stops breathing.

    Eighteen-month-old Charlotte Wyatt can hardly see or hear and weighed about a pound when she was born prematurely.

    Physicians say the baby's brain and other organs are so seriously damaged that she has no feeling other than continuing pain.

    Her parents, Darren and Debbie Wyatt, who believe in preserving life at any cost, sought to overturn a court order by Justice Mark Hedley who ruled that it would not be in Charlotte's best interests to die in the course of futile aggressive treatment.

    Hedley said he would review the order again, probably in October.

    The case echoes that of Terri Schiavo, a Florida woman in a vegetative state whose parents and husband fought over whether she should be allowed to die.

    She died March 31, almost two weeks after her feeding tube was removed by court order.

(Source: CRIENGLISH.com)