Connie Yates and Chris Gard, parents of Charlie Gard, pose with a petition of signatures supporting their case. (Credit: Getty/Tolga Akmen) The sad story of Charlie Gard, a dying British baby who became a cause célèbre on the American right, seems to be coming to a close. Charlie’s parents, Chris Gard and Connie Yates, have agreed to let the boy, who has a painful and terminal case of mitochondrial DNA depletion syndrome, to be taken off life support. The story is sad enough by itself, but has been made exponentially worse by the right wing vultures in the United States who exploited this tragedy in order to push for legislation to strip health care away from millions of Americans — including disabled children. How a dying baby in the UK became a propaganda object for opponents of universal health care in the U.S.

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