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mom fled with son after court orders him to get chemo
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It's not about fear of doctors ...
Chemotherapy is far from an ideal solution. Sure, it kills the cancer, but sometimes the remedy does kill the patient too. People have a right to disallow treatment, including for the minors they protect. If it was a procedure that was foolproof, then I might disagree. But it's not. No matter how minor.
I have more than one relative that has died as a result of Chemo, sooner than than the cancer would have. Given my family medical history and the reactions we have to Chemo, I'd be very, very reluctant.
Organizations like Hospice do exist for a reason. Unfortunately they can't help minors when the state assumes guardianship on such matters. Parents are not treating kids as property, but their responsibility. I'll be damned if the state and even a judge or jury knows better for a child than it's parent in the overwhelming majority of cases.
But people are free to continue their insistence that they tell parents what to do with their kids. It's the way of our "group rights" and "socialist movement." I'm regularly told I make too much money, and I travel too much, even though I'm away from my wife for my job, which is one reason I'm compensated much greater than if I didn't travel, or had a job I just sat at.
Let alone it's an evaluation that takes nothing of my unique capabilities into consideration that no others do. Especially my professional insistence to read and experience as much as I can in my field, while others just sit back and don't bother to better themselves (let alone others). How do you evaluate those sacrifices I make? My wife?
It's not about people fearing doctors.
Chemotherapy is far from an ideal solution. Sure, it kills the cancer, but sometimes the remedy does kill the patient too. People have a right to disallow treatment, including for the minors they protect. If it was a procedure that was foolproof, then I might disagree. But it's not. No matter how minor.
I have more than one relative that has died as a result of Chemo, sooner than than the cancer would have. Given my family medical history and the reactions we have to Chemo, I'd be very, very reluctant.
Organizations like Hospice do exist for a reason. Unfortunately they can't help minors when the state assumes guardianship on such matters. Parents are not treating kids as property, but their responsibility. I'll be damned if the state and even a judge or jury knows better for a child than it's parent in the overwhelming majority of cases.
But people are free to continue their insistence that they tell parents what to do with their kids. It's the way of our "group rights" and "socialist movement." I'm regularly told I make too much money, and I travel too much, even though I'm away from my wife for my job, which is one reason I'm compensated much greater than if I didn't travel, or had a job I just sat at.
Let alone it's an evaluation that takes nothing of my unique capabilities into consideration that no others do. Especially my professional insistence to read and experience as much as I can in my field, while others just sit back and don't bother to better themselves (let alone others). How do you evaluate those sacrifices I make? My wife?
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