Posted AT 8:34 PM EST on 13/06/08
Parents of sextuplets given transfusions lose court fight
VANCOUVER — A B.C. court says a child's right to life trumps a parent's charter right to guide their medical treatment in the case of four sextuplets taken from their Jehovah's Witness parents.
B.C. Supreme Chief Justice Donald Brenner has ruled that seizing the four surviving infants to administer blood transfusions, contrary to their parents' religious beliefs, was medically necessary.
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