The Jehovah's Witness girl doesn't want to receive another person's blood, even though she was diagnosed last week with leukemia.The province was given temporary custody of the girl late Monday night by a family court judge after successfully arguing the girl isn't mature enough to reject blood transfusions.
Gnam was in court Wednesday asking that the blood transfusions be stopped until he appeals the ruling, but Court of Queen's Justice John Rooke refused to grant the girl a stay.
"If she doesn't have the treatment she will suffer irreparable harm," Rooke said. "I acknowledge there is a harm to religious beliefs, but that has to be balanced with right to life."
Her lawyer said he will appeal, arguing that the girl is a mature minor. [Sorry, the Province already proved that she is not.]
"She's able to understand and make competent decisions," he said outside court. [Not if she's dead, she can't.]
Rooke pointed out the girl received two blood transfusions Tuesday at the Alberta Children's Hospital in Calgary.
"That harm has already taken place," he said. [Sad how brainwashing causes so much harm, isn't it.]
Her lawyer told court the harm to the girl's religious beliefs will be multiplied the more transfusions she has. [Nonsense, once you've tainted a JW with blood transfusions, you're always considered tainted; doesn't matter if it's one unit or 100 units.]
"It's an assault," Gnam said. "If you are assaulted once, does that mean further assaults don't have consequences?" [Let's ask the victims of elder-pedophiles about that too.]
The girl's mother and father have opposing opinions over whether their daughter should receive blood transfusions.
Her father, who wants her to have them, was ecstatic with the court's decision.
"I'm very happy that my daughter has a chance to live," he said outside court.
The girl and her parents cannot be named because she is a temporary ward of the province.
The court heard the initial blood transfusions have markedly improved the girl's red blood cell count, although nurses noted she cried after the procedure. Her father said the new blood made a marked difference in her condition.
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Mark Kastner, a spokesman for Alberta Children's Services, said the province stepped in because officials were told the girl would die within days if she didn't get blood transfusions.
"We'll be working with the doctors with whatever her needs are, as long as we have guardianship," Kastner said.
Hospital officials said they were unsuccessful in their worldwide search for other possible treatments for the girl's acute myeloid leukemia.
I feel bad for this young lady, hopefully one day instead of grieving over not being able to become a sacrificial virgin for the WTS, she'll be able to look at her own children and be thankful to the government and court system who intervened on her behalf.
