“The 17-year-old, who suffers from an aggressive cancer, lost his case against Sydney Children’s Hospital in March in which he had argued that treating him with blood products or a transfusion would breach his relationship with God. ‘There is no doubting (the applicant’s) devotion to his faith, but his life has been cocooned in that faith,’ Justice Ian Gzell said at the time. ‘The sanctity of life in the end is a more powerful reason for me to make the orders than is respect for the dignity of the individual.'”
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