CNN reports the parents of a baby born with a severe birth defect are battling in a British court over whether to switch off the child's life support.

The mother sides with doctors and favors disconnecting the baby's respirator. The father took the case to the High Court in London to stop them.

The child's life is miserable, sad and pitiful, lawyers for the hospital said in court. The child's lungs fill with fluid every few hours - giving him the sensation he is choking - and doctors must then use suction to remove the fluid, also causing the child to suffer.

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