A U.K. court has confirmed a ruling that will remove a 21-month-old child from life-support despite the parent’s desire to keep the child on it. The court of appeals in London denied the parent’s request to have their child, Alfie Evans, moved over to Vatican’s Bambino Gesu Pediatric Hospital where treatment could be continued. Essentially, the original lower court’s ruling ruled in favor of physicians at Alder Hey Children’s Hospital in Liverpool to cease life-support. The doctors call life-support for the child a “futile” situation.