Canadian Legislation Forcing Parents
To Subject Children To Chemotherapy
After recently reporting on a Bill
C-51 in Canada that could potentially criminalize parents
who give herbs or supplements to their children, more evidence
of tyranny now from a Canadian provincial government forcing parents
to subject children to chemotherapy against their will.
Child welfare officials have taken temporary custody of an 11-year-old
Ontario boy to ensure he undergoes chemotherapy
after his father decided to take him off treatment for his aggressive
form of leukemia.
"I think about the first time around what it did to him and
how it almost killed him and when he told me he doesn't want it
anymore," said. "He doesn't want to die this way, he
would rather die at home in a peaceful, comfortable way."
The dad, who lives in the city of Hamilton in Ontario, was briefly
shackled by security when he arrived at McMaster Children's Hospital
on Thursday with his son for what he believed was a routine appointment.
Local Children's Aid Society officials then took custody of the
boy due to the father's refusal to admit the son for another round
of chemotherapy.
The executive director of Hamilton's Children's Aid Society,
Dominic Verticchio, said a court ruled the boy must be treated.
"It's been very emotionally draining for everyone,"
he said. "The fact of the matter is there is provincial legislation
in place that states that children must receive the care and treatment
they require."
The father says the boy is being treated "like a prisoner"
at the hospital room where he is now staying, under the constant
surveillance of hospital security and Children's Aid officials.
"He's very angry and very upset," the father said.
The father says the entire situation is disgusting. He said doctors
told him that the boy has a 20 per cent chance of making it through
his chemotherapy treatments, then a 50 per cent chance after that
once he undergoes full body radiation and a bone marrow transplant.
He said the boy already has had a tough life - losing his mother
to cancer at the age of four as well as suffering from psychotic
episodes and fetal alcohol syndrome.
The case further demonstrates how the Canadian federal and provincial
governments are increasing the permission of Big Pharma's powers
of influence to regulate health legislation and ultimately deny
human rights to Canadians. It's time for the progressive community
to take these offences by government seriously. Nobody has the
right to invade our health with toxic drugs by force and the public
must stand up to their governments to prevent such criminal action.
Diane Mihalovic is a holistic nutritionist, dietician and
consumer advocate for the effectiveness of natural therapies.
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