This guy is going over the line. What if a Dr. thinks a woman needs an abortion and she refuses, should he strap her to the table and perform the abortion?
http://www.ctv.ca/servlet/ArticleNews/story/CTVNews/20070602/jehovahs_070602/
Ex-Jehovah's Witness urges compulsory treatment
Updated Sat. Jun. 2 2007 8:43 PM ET
Canadian Press
MONTREAL -- A former Jehovah's Witness, whose brother died after refusing blood transfusions, has collected 5,000 names on a petition which calls for doctors to be allowed to intervene medically regardless of the patient's religious beliefs.
Jonathan Lavoie says his brother died needlessly after refusing blood transfusions while being treated for an intestinal tumour.
Jean-Claude Lavoie, 26, a devout Witness, died last December.
Jonathan Lavoie, 32, says adults should be subject to the same rigorous judicial test that children go through before they can turn down a medical procedure based solely on religious beliefs.
"What I'd like to see is the laws changed so that doctors, when a person refuses a procedure for religious reasons -any religion -can still operate," says Lavoie, who hasn't decided when he'll give his petition to Quebec and federal politicians.
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