Rob Wipond reports on a constitutional challenge in British Columbia against a key component of the province’s Mental Health Act. “This case isn’t arguing that forced treatment can never be constitutional . . . But it does say that forced treatment which is imposed unilaterally by a doctor with no checks or balances and no recourse to anybody else is unconstitutional.”
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Outlaw all forced procedures ( otherwise known as treatments ).
Nomadic
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Thanks for the update, Rob.
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Saved to documents.
Good article, thanks for posting.