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Minnesota Denies Medical and Parental Rights
A judge in Minnesota has issued a warrant for the arrest of a mother who failed to show up for a court hearing. Earlier, the court ordered the boy’s parents to force him to receive chemo-therapy treatments for his Hodgkin’s lymphoma. The parents objected on religious grounds. Their son, the infirmed, also objected, going as far as to tell the judge “I’d fight it. I’d punch them and I’d kick them” if doctors attempted to administer the treatments.
What the court has done here is violate the Constitution in the name of science. So what if the boy’s cancer can easily be cured by treatment? So what if the court believes that his life can be saved? Why should the court get to make a decision on this boy’s health? If anyone has the right, it is the infirmed boy. If his immaturity is a bar, then it is his parents whom should make the decision.
This is an attack on parental rights, religious freedom of the individual and the Constitution itself.
