RE: Girl dies of stupid parents
January 21, 2015 at 11:24 am
(This post was last modified: January 21, 2015 at 11:25 am by Faith No More.)
(January 21, 2015 at 10:26 am)robvalue Wrote: So are parents legally allowed to pull their children from treatment like this? Or is it a stupid exception for religion? I'm not too up on the law.
Well, it's in Canada, and the article quotes someone that says she exercised her rights under the Health Care Consent Act. It also says she's a First Nations child, which means her ancestors were indigenous when the Europeans settled North America, so I'm sure that complicates the law, too.
Even if the open windows of science at first make us shiver after the cozy indoor warmth of traditional humanizing myths, in the end the fresh air brings vigor, and the great spaces have a splendor of their own - Bertrand Russell
