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Courts can override faith to save a child, but who protects them afterwards?

2026-03-20 - 13:00

When courts override parents to authorise life-saving treatment for a child, the law may resolve the immediate crisis but not the child’s long-term safety. The harder question is who protects that child once they return to a home where the very care that saved them may still be seen as a violation of faith?

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