Couple has the right to refuse test on newborn child. IF taking a few drops of blood from a
child's heel is forbidden by
protection of the Courts, then why not also taking 20 to 50 percent total blood volume by hasty umbilical
cord clamping?
The Irish Supreme Court has supported the rights of a couple who refused to allow doctors to carry out
a screening test on their newborn
baby.
It rejected a challenge from one of the country's health boards to the refusal of a couple to allow
a phenylketonuria (PKU) screening test to
be carried out on their infant son.
The court said the North Western Health Board (NWHB) was effectively seeking to have the test made compulsory.
That, said Ms Justice
Denham, would have "a far-reaching" effect, turning into law something which was presently
only departmental policy and would also
establish "a very low threshold" for court intervention in future cases involving children.
Mr Justice Hardiman, calling the case "utterly novel," said the move to perform a treatment
without consent was "a trespass, a battery and
a breach of constitutional rights."
If a maverick couple can apply to the Court to Protect Their Baby Before Injury
was Intended to happen to the baby, when other means
of test the baby without drawing blood were available, then we in Canada must be able to apply to our
Courts on behalf of babies, and
stop the clamping of the pulsating cord. We too, can require protection of our babies in
any kind of birth, including an emergency care to
be provided while the baby is on its lifeline. This means for all deliveries including the
c-section babies are NOT to be clamped off their
pulsating cords, and premature babies protected too, and NOT put down like dogs or endangered. There
is concern there is ploys to
endanger the c-section babies simply to take their blood having more cord stem cells quantity then a
full-term baby has. The duty is to
make the best practice possible choices, informed choices with the least risk of endangering to all
babies, on a global scale. If we do not
do that, what kind of society will we live in tomorrow? Who could we trust in the medical controls
around the world. Would we know the
facts of organs taken out of our bodies, were they really diseased, and were other organs taken out
that should not have been?
Think about it? If we do not protect babies, who will protect us?
Irish Court Stops PKU TESTS