Canadian court rules transfusions can be forced on teens

What are your thoughts on this? Should the Canadian court be allowed to force transfusions on individuals determined by psychiatrists to fully understand what their refusal of the transfusion means? Ethics anyone?

Canadian court rules transfusions can be forced on teens

Fri Jun 26, 2009 1:24pm EDT

OTTAWA (Reuters) - Manitoba social workers were right to force a Jehovah's Witness teenager to get a blood transfusion even though she said she felt it was like being raped, the Supreme Court of Canada ruled on Friday.

The girl, known as A.C., was almost 15 -- the law stipulates 16 as the age when independent decisions are allowed -- and argued that she knew what she was doing when she said she wanted to follow her religion and not take the blood.

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New shot aims to head off Type 1 diabetes

Shot is one of a handful of new immune therapies being tested around U.S.

By Lauran Neergaard

updated 48 minutes ago

PITTSBURGH - The doctor had barely pulled away the needle when a blister appeared on Tracey Berg-Fulton's abdomen: An experimental shot was revving up the 24-year-old's immune system — part of a bold quest to create a vaccine-like therapy for diabetes.

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