Kevin: Should a mother have rights to not allow proper chemotherapy for her son?
I heard a story about a mother who insisted on practicing natural health remedies to try and help cure her son with cancer instead of using chemotherapy. The mother ran away with her son in order to use the natural cures that she really thought would cure her son. She was eventually caught and punished. What do you think about the situation? Do you side with the mother or with the law?
Answers and Views:
Answer by guru
I don’t consider children property of parents. I side with the society who protects the rights of the child from the parents.
If the child dies, manslaughter, negligence and murder would all be charges that I would vote for on her jury.
Answer by One Big Awfull Mistake AmericaHealth care should be the parents decision, not the governments.
If you don’t like the decisions of other parents then make different ones for your own children.
guru I take it your a staunch pro lifer or a hypocrite.
Answer by Chaos BuggyI don’t think parents should be allowed to make stupid decisions, no. I think the mother should be classified as unfit to make medical discussion for her son if this is what her idea of medical treatment is.
You’ll hear people saying that it’s her ‘right’ and that the government shouldn’t be allowed to tell a parent how their child will be treated, but really, this child’s life is so much more important then what this woman has learned to believe. Leave vitally important health decisions to people who have mastered it.
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