Just an update. The BC Supreme Court ruled that while the parents have rights to determine medical treatment, the right of the children to receive treatment for life-threatening illness trumps that right.

The court ruled that the doctors made the right decision based on treatments and options available at the time. They also ruled that the speed of the decision (ie skipping the parents attending the hearing) was allowable due to the immediacy of the danger to their health.

So had viable treatments been available, and time been in supply, the government would not have had cause to seize and treat the kids.

Sextuplet parents lose court battle over B.C. baby seizures