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Court rejects motion to compel Rifqa Bary to undergo chemotherapy
THE COLUMBUS DISPATCH ^ | August 3, 2010 | Meredith Heagney

Posted on 08/05/2010 8:51:03 AM PDT by CedarDave

Rifqa Bary will not be forced to undergo chemotherapy for uterine cancer.

The Christian convert's parents were trying to compel Rifqa, who will be 18 in a week, to follow her doctor's recommendation: 45 weeks of chemotherapy.

A doctor said Rifqa is disease-free, according to "available imaging techniques," her attorney, Kort Gatterdam, said today in Franklin County Juvenile Court. He assured Magistrate Mary Goodrich that Rifqa will continue to consult her doctors but has chosen against chemotherapy. She has had surgery for her cancer.

"She is mature enough to make the decision's she made," he said.

Gatterdam also took exception to Rifqa's parents' attorney's claim that she went to a faith-healing event in Youngstown and then quit chemotherapy. He said the girl went to a "prayer conference" shortly after her diagnosis and then had "multiple surgeries and chemotherapy." He said the treatments made her very weak and sick.

(Excerpt) Read more at dispatch.com ...


TOPICS: Culture/Society; Government; US: Ohio
KEYWORDS: islam; rifqa; rifqabary
This is an update to the story published yesterday that claimed she is refusing chemotherapy because she went to a face healer. Here is the text from that story:

Christian convert Rifqa Bary is refusing chemotherapy for cancer because she believes that she was cured at a faith-healing event, according to a motion in Franklin County Juvenile Court.
Rifqa was to undergo a year of chemotherapy after her cancer was surgically removed, the document filed by her parents states.
But Rifqa, who is in foster care, was taken to a faith-healing event in Youngstown a couple of weeks ago by Franklin County Children Services, without her parents' consent, according to the document.
A motion to force treatment is to be considered today in Juvenile Court.

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The MSM got it wrong the first time so it always is important to look at their innate bias when reading the story.

1 posted on 08/05/2010 8:51:05 AM PDT by CedarDave
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To: CedarDave

Her muslime parents taking one last shot at her a week before her 18th, huh? /spit


2 posted on 08/05/2010 8:57:09 AM PDT by piytar (Those who never learned that peace and freedom are rare will be taught by reality.)
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Yup. However, once she turns 18 she will have to fight the immigration bureaucrats who will probably want to deport her back to an Islam country because she is no longer under her parents visa. The lib mindset is probably to let illegals who commit crimes stay, but deport an apostate Muslim turned Christian back to an Islamic country.


3 posted on 08/05/2010 9:04:32 AM PDT by CedarDave (Arrogant Obama on tax day protesters: "YouÂ’d think they would be saying 'Thank You!'.")
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To: CedarDave
because she went to a face healer

Intriguing typo ping.

4 posted on 08/05/2010 9:09:05 AM PDT by agere_contra (...what if we won't eat the dog food?)
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Spell check can’t read my mind!!


5 posted on 08/05/2010 9:10:26 AM PDT by CedarDave (Arrogant Obama on tax day protesters: "YouÂ’d think they would be saying 'Thank You!'.")
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The MSM didn’t want to get it right. Christian bashing is one of their favorite things. So, help the ghastly birth parents bash the girl.

And I say, so what if she did go? Did they think they were going to gain some sort of ground by saying so? Go away ‘mom’ and ‘dad’.


6 posted on 08/05/2010 9:17:48 AM PDT by ReneeLynn (Socialism is SO yesterday. Fascism, it*s the new black. Mmm Mmm Mmm.)
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the girl went to a "prayer conference" shortly after her diagnosis and then had "multiple surgeries and chemotherapy."

So she didn't refuse chemo. She is refusing "further" chemo.

She didn't go to a faith healer in lieu of treatment, she got prayer and then got treatment.

A doctor said Rifqa is disease-free, according to "available imaging techniques,"

And the result is that she is disease free as far as anyone can tell.

7 posted on 08/05/2010 9:28:15 AM PDT by marron
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It still surprises me for someone this young to get cancer.

This girl has been through the mill. May God continue to be with her.


8 posted on 08/05/2010 9:30:44 AM PDT by marron
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Praise Jesus for Rifqa’s healing. I am one of the many praying for her. The type of cancer she was reported to have has a 95% mortality rate.


9 posted on 08/05/2010 11:00:24 AM PDT by rae4palin (RESIST--REPEAL--IMPEACH)
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