Posted on 02/08/2014 2:47:33 PM PST by workerbee
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The Hershbergers say assigning a guardian to have the final say robbed them of their constitutional rights. They're appealing under the Ohio Health Care Freedom Amendment that voters approved in 2011. The amendment prohibits any law from forcing Ohioans to participate in "a health care system."
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"Allowing an uninterested third-party, one that has never even met the family or the child, to assert an interest in an exceedingly important parental decision will completely undermine the parent-child relationship," Thompson said in a filing with the Ohio Supreme Court.
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If I had Hodgkin's and declined chemo would that be suicide?
You are probably right about the newer drugs. The essential point was about the freedom to choose one’s own medical care. If we aren’t free to make bad decisions we aren’t free at all. I might be able to afford a couple of days at those rates.
If the parents are too ignorant to provide the life saving chemotherapy, a guardian being appointed to make educated decisions is the right thing. A pro-life standpoint would be to give the life saving treatment to the child.
It is for a child who has cancer.
That said, it is conceptually very complicated.
Thank you. As a medical researcher, I have to deal with ethics questions. I appreciate the point of view of a caregiver. Medical issues can be quite complicated.
It would be a poor decision, and if you had a family and children to take care of, it would be a selfish decision. Whether or not it was suicide depends. If you knew that the cure rates were greater than 85%, and you refused because you didn't want to live, that would arguably be suicide.
If you were a severe insulin-requiring diabetic, and knew that without taking insulin you would go into an ketoacidotic coma and die, and you decided to quit taking insulin, would that be suicide?
The child has undergone some chemo and the parents believe it was killing her. Is that possible? Could a child die from the treatment? How long do you give it?
I am NOT advocating for what the parents are doing, because I would not do it myself. However, yes, put me in the camp who worries that this is another incremental precedent towards authoritarianism. We are moving full-throttle into socialized medicine. Where does the line get drawn? When, and by whom?
“I dont understand your comment.”
The State wants to save this girl? How many abortions have they aided in the meanwhile? Kill them when they are young.
Not jumping on Ohio, as I don’t know their record, just in general.
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