JulieM

This sort of thing happens all the time (forced medical treatment that the parents refuse) and it doesn't garner much attention. I suspect the only reason this has gotten such media attention is:

a) the parents are JW
b) it was Canada's first sextuplets
c) two infants died before the courts took temp custody

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My wife brought up an interesting point. In the womb, the blood of the mother & children co-mingles due to the fact that the capilaries for the womb, and the capilaries for the placenta, are so fine that blood cells can pass in & out at will. So the child essentially spends 9 months getting a slow transfusion from the mother and vice versa (this is why R-factor problems occur, since the mother's immune system reacts to the presence of the child's blood cells).

So would a transfusion from the mother be out of the question?