Legal changes that needs to happen in Canada to protect families against medical kidnappings of SICK children:
Step one: Petition for Ontario Parliament
Please sign and spread our petition fighting for mandatory second medical opinions, oversight of CAPs and accountability via official statistics of initially misdiagnosed children.
Following the precedents from Texas and Arkansas, Georgia and Florida, all provinces in Canada need a legal change that would guarantee that parents of a child that presents with unexplained medical issues, are provided with a chance to obtain a second medical opinion for their child from a qualified expert outside of the accusing hospital before their child gets legally apprehended. At present, your child can be apprehended from you straight from the ER or doctor’s office before any extensive medical testing into conditions that mimic child abuse - like vitamin D deficiency/infantile rickets, Osteogenesis imperfecta, Ehlers-Danlos syndrome, strokes, to name just a few from an extensive list of medical conditions that mimic child abuse - has even begun.
The family should have the right to obtain second opinions from outside the accusing hospital and the second opinions should be covered by OHIP.
This legal change could in no way protect actual abusive parents but will give a fair fighting chance to loving parents whose sick child presents with symptoms that are medical but have initially been misdiagnosed as results of abuse.
This does not mean that protective measures are not put into place (the child is placed in a safe place until second opinions come in), but parents do not lose their legal rights as parents and continue to have access and decision-making privileges in the ensuing legal battle.