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05-15-2009, 04:10 PM #1
Judge rules family CAN'T refuse chemo for boy! UPDATE!!!
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/ap_on_he_...d_forced_chemo
MINNEAPOLIS – A Minnesota judge ruled Friday that a 13-year-old cancer patient must be evaluated by a doctor to determine if the boy would benefit from restarting chemotherapy over his parents' objections.
So is this beginning of forced practices based on what someone else believes? This is absolutely scary and makes me sick.
Should bring a pretty decent discussion!
UPDATE:
Looks like the mother and the boy skipped town and missed the court date set where the judge was going to review the Xrays
http://www.cnn.com/2009/US/05/20/min...emo/index.html
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05-15-2009, 04:19 PM #2
they're not forcing him to do chemo, they just want to evaluate if it would be more beneficial if he did it
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05-15-2009, 04:24 PM #3
The courts are making the decisions instead of his parents. One sentence in that article sums it up best:
"It really affirms the role that big government is better at making our decisions for us."
I agree parent don't always make the best decisions for their kids, a lot of parents are not smart, to put it nicely. But right or wrong, it is not the government's place to step in. This is the government making citizen's decisions for them...that is the opposite of freedom.
The parents have refused chemo on religious grounds, so this also brings the question of religious freedoms into play.
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05-15-2009, 05:29 PM #4
communism is coming!!!!
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05-15-2009, 06:14 PM #5
I just lost a really good friend of mine 3 months ago to cancer...and while chemo "might have" kept him alive for 2 years, it completely destroyed his body and energy...im personally not convinced he wouldn't have lived 2 years on his own without chemotherapy, and he might've enjoyed his last 2 years a little bit more.
my mom is a registered nurse and says in 50 years we'll look back on chemo and consider it barbaric and inhumane....she says it's basically rat poison, but i've never looked into it much to understand exactly what she's talking about
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05-15-2009, 06:49 PM #6
I've heard a lot of stories like that too, that it's terribly painful and completely drains you. I know I'm not a little boy who has barely begun life, but I'm only 28 and should have a long way to go...but if I was in a situation like this, I'd rather do all I could to enjoy my final days instead of going through **** for just a slim chance of hope anyway. Of course, others may feel differently...which is exactly why the government or courts shouldn't decide what's best for someone.
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05-15-2009, 10:26 PM #7
Your religious freedom ends where somebody else's life begins. And if you have a problem with that, if you think, "I should be allowed to murder my kid in order to not anger the invisible man who lives in my attic," then you are a failure as a parent and should have your kids taken away.
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05-15-2009, 10:33 PM #8
Well the article stated for this particular cancer he's battling, if I recall chemo would give him a 95% chance of survival VS 5% without it...
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05-15-2009, 11:33 PM #9
And you were doing so good...
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05-16-2009, 12:41 AM #10
This kind of thing is case-by-case IMO. We cannot just let things slide every time when people claim religious freedom.
It is not so much that government is getting bigger, as it is that we overlook how many people are unfit to be parents. I am not necessarily saying these parents are 100% as such, but it is a general statement for a lot of people.
Pretty much.
I highly doubt the child himself denied treatment (as the mother said) if he only had a basic understanding of his illness. The kid is not all there if he thinks he isn't sick as the article says. Add to it that the family is following one of those "new age, natural healing" religions...
"My son is not in any medical danger at this point" COME ON...These parents would have essentially let the kid die.
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Originally Posted by duwal 
