the first room of the Supreme Court of Justice ruled that the State should be ordered to perform blood transfusions to a six-year-old girl who suffers from leukemia, to save his life, this though and their parents reject this treatment, for their religious beliefs.
The girl, Sarai, lives in the State of Chihuahua. His parents are indigenous raramuris, and profess the religion of Jehovah’s witnesses, he explained the newspaper Reforma.
In April 2017, Sarai was admitted to State children of specialty Hospital, and then their parents asked them to do a treatment that did not include transfusions.
However, a social worker at the hospital felt that the status of the minor was serious, so the Attorney of protection auxiliary of, children and adolescents in Chihuahua had to be in charge of the case, and indeed that instance has started a protection procedure, authorizing the transfusions.
The minor was diagnosed with acute lymphoblastic leukemia and said is that required chemotherapy and more transfusions. The Attorney, of new account, authorized procedures, although the parents remained against, and applied for an injunction.
The mother of Sarai, according to the report from reform, argued that “the doctors and the Attorney have made it feel that being indigenous is ignorant and can’t take the decisions with respect to the treatment of his daughter”.
A judge, in may 2017, granted a suspension and an injunction in favor of parents, noting that the Attorney had engaged in discriminatory practices, by not respecting their decisions about their children.
Ultimately, the case went to the Supreme Court.
In its resolution, that Chihuahua authorities intervene and ordered transfusion to Sarai, the first room indicated that “while parents have the right to make free decisions about their children, both in the field of health and in the field of education “n religious, this right has as limit not to put at risk the health and lives of their children”.
Put at risk the life of a child when parents, privileging their religious beliefs, refuse to follow a treatment that has already been accredited by the medical community, as the most effective procedure, stressed the first room.
The State must enact measures necessary to protect the health of a minor, even if their parents refuse treatment: first room. https://t.co/8Wp29XRLE6 pic.twitter.com/RBkJgQ2DDW – Supreme Court (@SCJN) August 15, 2018
