Alfie, who suffers from an undiagnosed brain disorder, was taken off life support Monday afternoon and has been forced to go hours without food, water and oxygen.

This on-going case has left many people asking: "How can a court deny parents the right to seek treatment for their child?"

Regent University family law professor Lynne Marie Kohm points to the United Nations for the answer.

"This is about the lethal combination of the Convention on the Rights of the Child and state universal health care," Kohm told CBN News.

The Convention on the Rights of the Child (CRC) is a United Nations human rights treaty that gives states legal authority to make decisions about a child's welfare.

"That means that the child's rights are protected by the state, not by his parents," Kohm explained.

Because Britain signed the CRC in 1991, Alfie's parents cannot intervene for his best interests.

"This would not happen in the United States because the court in the United States is charged with allowing the parents to direct the upbringing of their children and those parents are bound by law to do what's in the best interest of those children. Those rules don't exist in the UK or any of the 192 nations who've signed the CRC," Kohm said.

She also points to the failure of universal health care.

"In Britain the hospital has been paying the cost of taking care of Alfie his whole life and that's been a while," she said. "This is state health care. Universal state health care ... so, when the state is in charge, it's going to decide who gets to continue to live when resources are limited."

The UK court believes now is time for Alfie to die with dignity. Kohm believes just the opposite.

"When you are starving a person, they start losing their sight. Their organs shut down. Some people would call that murder. Not death with dignity."

Kohm said Alfie's case reveals the special responsibility God has given parents to protect their children, and what happens when a powerful government usurps that right.

"God has put in parents' hearts to protect their kids. But when states step in to stop that, it makes it really impossible for the child to move forward," she shared.

There still is hope for Alfie—and that's through prayer.

"We need to pray that he is healed. We need to pray for his complete healing," Kohm said.

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