Berkeley CSUA MOTD:Entry 37530
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2005/5/5 [Reference/Law/Court] UID:37530 Activity:high
5/5     Missed this one.  Canadian court says you don't have religious
        freedom:
        http://csua.org/u/byr
        \_ Hey whoever edited this:  reply, don't mangle my words.
        \_ It's just part of Canada's culture of life!
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CBC News VANCOUVER A BC Supreme Court judge has ruled that a 14-year-old cance r patient from the Okanagan must accept a blood transfusion, despite her religious opposition to the procedure. So when a provincial court judge authorized doctors to give her a transfusion if needed, the teen with the support of her family and her church appea led to the BC Supreme Court. She had already consented to chemotherapy, surgery and even possible ampu tation of her leg. But in a court document, the teen says a transfusion would be a violation of her person, not unlike a rape. "It's no different than somebody getting sexually assaulted or raped or r obbed or something. You'd feel violated because it's not anybody else's property, it's you." Lawyers for the attorney general and the children's ministry argued that provincial laws state that a minor's health and we lfare are paramount and that children do not have the legal capacity t o decide their treatment. Madam Justice Mary Boyd agreed that denying the 14 year old her wishes wa s not a violation under the Charter of Rights that freedom of religion is not absolute. The family has not yet decided whether to appeal the latest decision. Their lawyer, Shane Brady, says he's disappointed in the decision, but th at the girl is hopeful her doctor will choose not to violate her wishes while she completes another three months of treatment. "The family is di sappointed because their position has been, all along, that once the cou rt has found that she is as capable as you and I, that young woman shoul d make the decision," says Brady. The girl is slated to undergo three mo re months of chemotherapy, beginning on Tuesday. Father sues Jehovah's Witnesses, hospital ove r teen's death In September 2002, Alberta teenager Bethany Hughes died of leukemia after making a public stand for her Jehovah's Witness faith. Her father fough t a lengthy court battle to have Bethany given blood, which she finally received after being made a temporary ward of the province.