Credit: Chodrya Mike/Shutterstock. CNA Staff, Feb 5, 2021 / 02:00 pm (CNA).- Bioethicists on Thursday criticized an English court ruling that life-sustaining treatment can be withdrawn from a five-year-old girl against her mother’s wishes. In a Feb. 4 statement, the Anscombe Bioethics Centre in Oxford, England, described the ethical reasoning behind the High Court decision as “deeply flawed.” A judge issued the ruling on Jan. 8 after specialists at a children’s hospital in London said that life-support treatment should end for Pippa Knight, who is in a vegetative state after suffering brain damage. The BBC reported on Jan. 27 that the girl’s mother, Paula Parfitt, would appeal against the decision with financial backing from the Society for the Protection of Unborn Children (SPUC).