Broken record time

I know that I am starting to sound like a broken record here, but until we get this thought of "universal health care" out of our heads, I am going to continue.

"A Winnipeg teenager who is a Jehovah's Witness cannot refuse a blood transfusion, the Manitoba Court of Appeal ruled Tuesday.
In a unanimous decision, the court upheld a lower-court ruling that allowed the province's Child and Family Services department to force her to have a transfusion if doctors deemed it medically necessary.
The 15-year-old girl, who cannot be named, has Crohn's disease. In April 2006, she received a blood transfusion by order of the province — despite a statement she wrote saying she didn't want treatment — after she was admitted to hospital with internal bleeding related to the disease."

I do not agree with the interpretation that the Jehovah's Witnesses use to shun life saving blood products. However, it is not the courts place to dictate to a patient what treatments she will or will not accept! If we succumb to the appeal of government run health care, that is exactly what we will be subjecting ourselves to!

Again, my question to those principled pro-choicers who insist that government stay out of their decisions - how can you be for universal health care when you are so adamantly opposed to government intervention in abortion? It is, I think, an honest question!