SA Cape court puts child welfare first

South Africa’s Western Cape High Court has authorised life-saving surgery for a six-year-old girl after her parents withheld consent on cultural and religious grounds, in a ruling that is likely to sharpen debate over the limits of parental authority when a child’s survival is at stake. The case centred on Red Cross War Memorial Children’s Hospital in Cape Town, where doctors said urgent amputations were the only […] The article SA Cape court puts child welfare first appeared first on Arabian Post .