Docs criticise religious parents for prolonging life support | News | The Christian Institute: Doctors writing in the Journal of Medical Ethics have strongly criticized religious parents who refuse to agree to the withdrawal of medical treatment from their critically ill children. They said fundamentalist Christians with African roots were a particular problem because they expressed “expectation of miraculous intervention.” The doctors are calling for a review of the legal system so that parents’ religious beliefs carry less weight.
But a legal expert from Oxford University has accused the doctors of reducing children’s best interests to essentially medical criteria. Charles Foster said the doctors “seem to think that because we are becoming an increasingly ‘secular society’ there is some sort of democratically ordained mandate to impose secular values on everyone.”
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