Adam and his parents, devout members of the sect, believe that transfusions are a sin. Maye is called upon to decide whether a seventeen-year-old Jehovah's Witness, Adam Henry, who is on the point of dying from leukaemia, is entitled to refuse a blood transfusion which could save him. The film is closely based on a 2014 novella of the same name by Ian McEwan, who also wrote the screenplay. Emma Park says Ian McEwan's book and the film it has inspired prompt the questions of what the state should do when a young person's religion conflicts with their welfare, and how this affects religious freedom.ĭoes the state have the right to prevent children from refusing medical treatment on religious grounds? This is the question at the heart of The Children Act, a film released in the UK in August this year, directed by Richard Eyre and starring Emma Thompson as Fiona Maye, a judge in the family division of the High Court.
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