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Posted September 11th, 2007 by minortopics | Permalink

Children’s right to life should trump parents’ rights, B.C. lawyer tells court

Jehovah’s Witness parents tried to deny their premature babies life saving blood transfusions after a few of them experienced seizures and other very serious complications, due to their religious convictions.

Fortunately, Canada protects children from parents in cases where their parents beliefs will put the children at grave risk.

VANCOUVER (CP) — The rights of children in need of potentially life-saving medical treatment should trump any rights of their parents, a lawyer argued Monday in a case involving blood transfusions given to four surviving sextuplets.


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