Strike Two, or, Die, Die Again

[wegs]

The laws need to change. Religious ''freedoms'' should never be permitted as an excuse for letting one's child die, when the parent could easily have sought medical treatment.

 

[Tiassa]

Phily Ain't That Bad Off ....

What's the point though? wont there previous bad conduct be kept out of a new trial so the jury will believe this is the first time they have done it and therefore refuse to convict?

Not this time. This crime occurred not only in violation of the law, but because the parents were violating a specific court order.

Also on another site we were debating how JW's children should be treated when the parents refuse blood products. Here its straight forward, they don't have the right to refuse and so the Guardianship board will automatically authorise the treatment over the patients wishes but most of the people on the site were american and there response was "Well its there religion so you have to respect it, even if it leads to the child's death"

Sounds like a strange board insofar as most Americans don't take it that far. Life at conception personhood is a controversial subject in America, but postnatal personhood is not. Well, unless the baby is dark-skinned or female, but that usually doesn't come up until later in the child's life.

 

[Asguard]

Not this time. This crime occurred not only in violation of the law, but because the parents were violating a specific court order.



Sounds like a strange board insofar as most Americans don't take it that far. Life at conception personhood is a controversial subject in America, but postnatal personhood is not. Well, unless the baby is dark-skinned or female, but that usually doesn't come up until later in the child's life.

Not really, it was a group of medical people and the discussion was what do you do if a parent presents with a child requiring blood products but refusing to consent to them for the child because they are a JW

 

[Tiassa]

Thank you for the clarification

Not really, it was a group of medical people and the discussion was what do you do if a parent presents with a child requiring blood products but refusing to consent to them for the child because they are a JW

Ah, that makes a little more sense.

And, yes. In the United States, that attitude does exist, in part because that's how the law has been. Such laws are changing, but slowly.