Oregon takes a stand against "faith healing"

[preahko]

This is great, the world needs more of this: government limiting the abusive powers of religions!

 

Oregon takes a stand against faith healing

Friday, Mar 11, 2011

 

In Oregon, faith healing has been a legitimate legal protection against certain kinds of homicide charges. Yesterday, the Oregon state House voted unanimously in favor of a bill that would remove that special protection, and stipulate mandatory sentencing for parents whose children died because the parents chose to give those children faith healing rather than medical treatment. Basically, you can make the choice yourself as an adult, but you can't choose to deny life-saving treatment to your kids. The bill's sponsors say that, in the past two years alone, two Oregon children have died, and another was severely disfigured, when those children's parents denied them medical care.

 

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[cavanami]

Some states have taken the position that if the children are under 18 y.o. then the state will take the children and get them medical care.

 

Tough call but with the way our rights have been trampled, this one should be an easy call, help the children!

[Flashermac]

 

I thought this was the case everywhere - surprised to see it isn't. A cousin and his wife were in trouble with the law some years back because they denied their 14-year-old son treatment for cancer, saying he'd live it God willed it. Apparently God didn't, since the boy died. My mother was shocked that they could watch their own child die like that, but such are the fanatics.

 

p.s. It was a pretty serious case and even the MDs might not have been able to save him, but the parents gave him no chance at all.