Re: Mom is charged for making medical decisions, this is NOT a free country

"Jan Drew" <jdrew1374@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> fell face-first on the keyboard.
This was the result: news:j8Ubk.13159$xZ.1717@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
 

> http://news.aol.com/health/story/ar/_a/mom-accused-of-denying-son-chemo
> /20080703102809990001?icid=200100397x1205086835x1200242430 

You say, in your subject title, that this is "NOT a free country" - It 
(Both Canada and the USA) most certainly is - You, for example, have every

right to swing your fist - that right, however, stops at the tip of my 
nose. 

In other words, you are free to do as you wish until you pose a danger, by

action or witholding of action, to others.

From that article: 

"He had a good prognosis when first diagnosed, with chances of recovery
put 
at 85 percent to 90 percent, according to a police re****t. But his chances

have dropped to 10 percent since being deprived of medication, authorities

said."

....

"In March, Dr. Alison Friedmann, the child's oncologist at Massachusetts 
General Hospital, filed a re****t of suspected neglect with the Department 
of Social Services after discovering Fraser's cancer had returned, 
something that should not have happened if he was on his medications."

In other words, by witholding chemotherapy, the "mother" (and I use that 
term with disdain in this case) dropped her own son's chances of survival 
from 85% to practically nil.

That is the choice one makes when having children: You have 
_responsibilities_ because they are not old enough to carry out those 
responsibilities themselves.

"NOT a free country" ? You actually believe that the mother had the
_RIGHT_ 
to deny her son a (good) chance to live ? You disgust me.  



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