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
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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