Ethics committee or death panel?

Originally posted by @no1marauder
Hardly:

Physicians have a fiduciary responsibility to their patients...

In Ontario.

Originally posted by @no1marauder
It's more like not giving your kid medicine knowing he'll die because you didn't.

Do you think parents who refuse to administer State mandated treatments to their children should be treated as criminals?

E.g. Jehovah’s Witnesses and blood?

Originally posted by @athousandyoung
In Ontario.

In the US as well:

https://biotech.law.lsu.edu/books/lbb/x236.htm

Originally posted by @athousandyoung
Do you think parents who refuse to administer State mandated treatments to their children should be treated as criminals?

That's an off-topic hypothetical. The one I gave was precisely tailored to the facts of this case.

Originally posted by @no1marauder
That's an off-topic hypothetical. The one I gave was precisely tailored to the facts of this case.

No it wasn’t you brought up the parent child relationship as it applies to treatments. There is no parent child relationship here.

Originally posted by @no1marauder
In the US as well:

https://biotech.law.lsu.edu/books/lbb/x236.htm

Then this decision was illegal and why are we discussing it?

Originally posted by @athousandyoung
Then this decision was illegal and why are we discussing it?

It wasn't illegal in Texas.

We are discussing it because the Texas' law is clearly aberrational and in violation of established norms in the US.

Law does not define morality if that is what you are suggesting.

Originally posted by @no1marauder
It wasn't illegal in Texas.

We are discussing it because the Texas' law is clearly aberrational and in violation of established norms in the US.

That Texas law is illegal under Federal Law according to the link you just gave.

Originally posted by @athousandyoung
No it wasn’t you brought up the parent child relationship as it applies to treatments. There is no parent child relationship here.

There is a fiduciary relationship between a doctor and a patient; your comparison postulated a stranger. A parent-child relationship is just another type of fiduciary relationship.https://www.stimmel-law.com/en/articles/fiduciary-duty-what-it-and-what-does-it-impose-upon-you

Originally posted by @athousandyoung
Law does not define morality if that is what you are suggesting.

You should know that is something I would never suggest.

Originally posted by @no1marauder
There is a fiduciary relationship between a doctor and a patient; your comparison postulated a stranger. A parent-child relationship is just another type of fiduciary relationship.https://www.stimmel-law.com/en/articles/fiduciary-duty-what-it-and-what-does-it-impose-upon-you

And in the parent child fiduciary relationship is it immoral or illegal to refuse to treat your children even though the government insists you “know better” ?

Originally posted by @no1marauder
You should know that is something I would never suggest.

But you imply it when you show us laws as evidence of the morality of something.

Originally posted by @no1marauder
It's more like not giving your kid medicine knowing he'll die because you didn't.

Who decides if the parent knows the child will be saved by the medicine and what should be the penalty?

Originally posted by @athousandyoung
But you imply it when you show us laws as evidence of the morality of something.

I don't believe I did.