ALFIE EVANS’ FATHER: Hospital is holding my son hostage.

Imagine having to go to a hospital in a case where no abuse or neglect has been alleged, let alone imagined, and having to bargain for the release of your own child. Now imagine that added to the knowledge that the hospital’s plan for your child is to neglect him to death, even though he has been breathing on his own for three days straight, and when other medical facilities are volunteering to offer treatment or at least palliative care for as long as the child still lives.

Unimaginable, right?

Nahh – it’s the subtext of a commercial for a cable television network owned by Comcast.