To: Ken H
A judge ruled Friday that a 16-year-old boy fighting to use alternative treatment for his cancer must report to a hospital by Tuesday and accept treatment that doctors deem necessary, the family's attorney said.
Dr. Benjamin Rush, a signatory to the Declaration of Independence said:
"Unless we put medical freedom into the Constitution, the time will come when medicine will organize into an undercover dictatorship . . . to restrict the art of healing to one class of men, and deny equal privilege to others, will be to constitute the bastille of medical science. All such laws are un-American and despotic and have no place in a Republic . . . The Constitution of this Republic should make special privilege for medical freedom as well as religious freedom."
His words were ignored. No one in those days believed the people would ever tolerate that.
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146 posted on
07/21/2006 9:31:05 PM PDT by
mugs99
(Don't take life too seriously, you won't get out alive.)
To: mugs99
Wow. Over two hundred years ago somebody was thinking about such things.
To: mugs99
163 posted on
08/08/2006 12:10:37 AM PDT by
bigdcaldavis
(Xandros : In a world without fences, who needs Gates?)
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