The Supreme Court of Ireland Diminishes Parental Authority fsspx.news

“The fact of refusing treatment for a child does not necessarily require parental consent to be legal, if this refusal is based on a decision taken in the best medical interests of the child, and if it appears contrary to medical ethics to provide such treatment,” writes the highest court in Eire, in its judgment rendered on January 22, 2021.

To grasp the problem posed by a decision whose terms remain rather vague—one may wonder in what sense an increasingly secularized society understands the term “medical ethics”—it must be put in context…

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