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MADELINE Kara Neumann, age 11, died of diabetes because her parents prayed rather than taking her to doctors. Caleb Moorhead, age 6 months, died after his deeply religious vegan parents refused a simple vitamin injection to cure his malnutrition. The list of children killed by their parents' superstition or wilful ignorance is a long one.
Fears over 'designer' babies leave children suffering
Seeded on Sat Mar 21, 2009 10:16 PM EDT
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How can parents stand by and let their children die instead of doing all in their power to get the best medical care available?
A good question, with no answer I can pretend to understand or sympathize with. Ignorance of the law doesn't nullify ones need to comply with it, I don't think it should be tolerated in other realms of significance, such as a child's life, either.
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#1 - Sat Mar 21, 2009 10:20 PM EDTThere are tough decission in life,I would have choosen both praying and Medicine! There is a reason for everything! Before Aug.2nd 2002 at exactly 11:59 I didn't believe in God Strongly!
Read drophate and believe on the newsvine,especially if you doubt the parents decission!
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#2 - Sun Mar 22, 2009 12:43 PM EDTGod is all powerful and I do believe in the power of prayer but not stupidity. God has also given us brains and with those brains we have certain things at our disposal such as medicine, vaccinations---and doctors to administer to and advise us.
We should be using our brains. Even before bottled and patented medicines and vitamins people of this planet used plants, herbs etc....in the effort to cure diseases and heal.
I think there should be consequences for these individuals.
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