Lonny Rosen Comments on Case of 11 Year Old Who Chose Natural Remedies over Chemotherapy

In a case that received Nation-wide attention, an 11-year-old girl has refused chemotherapy in favour of Indigenous medicine to treat her cancer. Interviewed by an online news service, Lonny commented that the first question to be determined is whether she is capable of giving consent, as "even a child can consent to her own treatment if she is able to understand the information that’s relevant to making a decision about the treatment and able to appreciate the reasonably foreseeable consequences of the decision or lack of decision.” Lonny went on to discuss the implications of the Child and Family Services Act and the Health Care Consent Act on this case. See the full article here.