{"id":61539,"date":"2015-09-17T23:20:47","date_gmt":"2015-09-17T15:20:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=61539"},"modified":"2025-01-10T23:19:13","modified_gmt":"2025-01-11T04:19:13","slug":"parents-drop-fight-to-treat-baby-with-cannabis-oil-as-she-breathes-on-her-own","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2015\/09\/17\/parents-drop-fight-to-treat-baby-with-cannabis-oil-as-she-breathes-on-her-own\/","title":{"rendered":"Parents drop fight to treat baby with cannabis oil as she breathes on her own"},"content":{"rendered":"
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VANCOUVER \u2013 Parents of a severely ill baby girl in British Columbia have dropped a court action seeking greater control of her care, including the right to treat her with cannabis oil.<\/p>\n

Justin Pierce and Michelle Arnold withdrew their application to share custody of their five-month-old daughter with B.C.\u2019s Ministry of Children and Family Development on Wednesday.<\/p>\n

The parents\u2019 lawyer, Erin Haupt, says Mary Jane Pierce has been breathing on her own without a ventilator for two weeks and the parents are hopeful they can bring her home someday.<\/p>\n

The ministry obtained a temporary custody order in August, and Haupt says the province is still planning to make the order permanent.<\/p>\n

But she says the protection hearing won\u2019t likely be held for several weeks, allowing the parents time to show they can be good caregivers to Mary Jane.<\/p>\n

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The baby was born premature at 25 weeks and has been in hospital ever since with serious health problems including seizures, which the parents say were helped by the cannabis oil treatment.<\/p>\n

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The family\u2019s court battle began in August when the ministry moved to remove the baby\u2019s ventilator and place her in palliative care.<\/p>\n

Pierce and Arnold, who live in Chilliwack, B.C., won a temporary injunction to keep her on life support. At a subsequent hearing, the ministry agreed not to take her off the machine without the couple\u2019s consent.<\/p>\n

A lawyer for B.C. Women\u2019s Hospital told court last month that the cannabis oil did nothing to alleviate the girl\u2019s seizures and might have instead increased them.<\/p>\n

Penny Washington said the extensive medical treatments were taking a toll on Mary Jane, who has cerebral palsy and suffers bleeding in her brain.<\/p>\n

\u201cIn my view, it\u2019s becoming inconsistent with human dignity,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n

But Haupt said on Wednesday the girl has made remarkable progress in the past two weeks. She still needs some support to breathe, but no longer needs the ventilator.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe parents are very excited that she is getting better and better, and they want to show that they can be parents, so that\u2019s how we\u2019re proceeding,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s fantastic, given a couple weeks ago we never thought we\u2019d be in this position.<\/p>\n

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They are very, very hopeful that she will at some point be able to be discharged.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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