Parents of Canadian sextuplets did an interview with the Globe and Mail
A young father says he and his wife are not the same people they were before they became parents of sextuplets. The couple did an interview with the Globe and Mail.Two of the babies died within days of their birth, and the province seized the four others because the parents, both devout Jehovah’s Witnesses, refused to authorize blood transfusions.
The mother and father say they’re exhausted, but elated now that three of their children are at home with them and that their fourth baby will be returned from hospital shortly.
The mother says she wants people to understand that she’s a loving, caring parent and that she loves her children, despite the fact that they were given a treatment strictly forbidden by her religion.
Parents of sextuplets in court, 16 April 2007
The parents of Canada’s first sextuplets are in a Vancouver court today to fight the BC government over the seizure of their babies for blood transfusions.
The parents are Jehovah’s Witnesses, a religion that forbids the procedure. Their lawyer, Shane Brady, says his clients’ constitutional rights were violated. Two of the six premature infants died soon after their birth on January 7th.
The parents’ names and their four surviving children are under a publication ban.
VANCOUVER (NEWS1130)
