Quote:

The last I heard the babies were returned to their parents and only one received a blood transfusion.

Two died, then three were seized, and two received transfusions. The last infant is presumably doing fine, otherwise I imagine it would have been seized as well. All have been returned to their parents.

Quote:

If the action was legal according to Canadian law and if a blood transfusion was the only possible treatment available and essential to their life, then why haven't the other three babies died, and why were they returned to their parents before receiving a blood transfusion?

The doctors may have wanted to examine the kids to see if they needed the transfusion or not. Which is probably why only 2 of the 3 seized got one. The 3rd may not have been sick enough to need more than an alternative treatment.

Quote:

You mentioned that the children have unalienable rights and one of them is the right to life. If this is what the doctors believe, and if this right is their first priority then why did they urge the mother to have an abortion of two of the babies before they were born?

In Canada, the (legal) right to life begins before birth, but after conception. The doctors would most likely have recommended an abortions early in the pregnancy (ie before the legal cutoff). Then again, if the life of the other babies is in danger, the legal cutoff can be extended. Also remember they were born very premature, so the time between the cutoff for abortions and the time of birth would have been much closer than in a regular pregnancy. They were born 3 months early I believe.

Quote:

Would that not mean that, on an average, one child out of five would die even with blood transfusions?

I recommend watching "Gattica" if you're going to tell me you decide whether to try to save someone's life based on a statistic.

Quote:

Choosing an alternative treatment is not the same as choosing no treatment at all, and it is not the same as letting them die.

It is if the "alternative treatment" is ineffective. But not knowing what exactly ailed them other than severe anemia, I can't comment on how effective any other treatment would be. But I do know that transfusion is definitely a "most likely to make them better, fast" treatment for severe anemia in preemies.