Myrick Wants States To Ban Rebirthing Therapy (good!!)

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[chance33_98]

CHARLOTTE -- Rep. Sue Myrick has introduced a resolution in Congress encouraging states to outlaw rebirthing therapy, a controversial procedure intended to help adopted children bond with their new parents.

Myrick, R-N.C., who introduced the resolution Monday, was inspired by the story of a Lincoln County couple whose 10-year-old granddaughter died during rebirthing therapy.

[chance33_98]

Buncha sick liberal freaks have no idea what they are doing.

[RJCogburn]

Rebirthing therapy is used by some therapists to treat attachment disorder, in which children resist forming loving relationships and are violent and unmanageable. The therapy is supposed to re-create the experience of birth and allow an adopted child to bond with his new parents more easily.

The same sort of bizarre thinking that is associated with 'recovered memories'. There are a whole lot of wacko 'therapists' out there.

[Savage Beast]

I don't agree. To ban something like this because a tragic accident occurred is like banning automobiles because a tragic accident occurred. Obviously children cannot be harmed or endangered, but if there are assurances against this, people can do whatever they want to do, no matter how harebrained. I don't like government controls on everything.

[RipSawyer]

I certainly don't like government controls on everything. It seems to me that the proper way to handle this is simply to say that these people smothered the child to death and treat them accordingly. Manslaughter is manslaughter, the fact that it happened in the process of some harebrained "therapy" is beside the point.

[chance33_98]

Normally I would agree with you - but it is nice to see the big government liberals always wanted coming down on something they enjoy :)

[Persuasion]

Sir, if you'd read this story when it came out, you might feel differently. It was awful. The little girl was crying out that they were suffocating her, and they kept on despite it all, beating her with pillows and smothering her to death. It was one of the most awful stories I had heard in a very long time - and honestly, the representative is right on this one.

[camle]

two comments:

1) changing social policy as grief therapy is dangerous
2) notice how they didnt' ban stupidity. like where was everybody when this was going on?

[Savage Beast]

I still don't agree. Of course, no one should be allowed to beat and suffocate a child (or anyone else), but that's already illegal. "Rebirthing" does not and should not involve that, and if it doesn't there's no need to ban it.

People who beat, suffocate, and kill someone should be prosecuted under existing laws.

Anyone who wants to do "rebirthing" in a safe and legal way should be left alone.

There are many people, including many legislators, who would love to regulate and fine-tune everything--from whether or not you can smoke cigarettes to how much water your toilet reservoir may hold to whether or not you can do harmless rebirthing to what temperature your bath water should be. Every acquiescence to such things is a loss of liberty. They add up. Soon you're living in a Talibanesque society in which kites and music are banned and everyone must conform to a dress code. But long before it reaches that extreme, liberty is lost, and liberty is something valuable enough to die for. Any encroachment by government on liberty is to be resisted.

[Savage Beast]

Exactly. Thanks, Rip. You said it a lot better than I did.

[Savage Beast]

See RipSawyer's post # 4.

[midwesterner]

I agree.

[RJCogburn]

I don't like government controls on everything.

I agree with you. I was commenting on how wacked out a lot of these so called therapies are. I do not agree with the proposed bill. The loonies will just come up with another "treatment" anyhow.

[gcruse]

I'll support banning weird therapies when they ban chiropractic and homeopathy. In the meantime, if these are accepted then anything else some loony wants to charge some lumpen for is fair game. As long as Americans read and heed horoscopes they deserve what comes with irrationality.

[Persuasion]

Well, perhaps I don't understand completely what re-birthing entails. I was under the impression that the pillow beating was standard proceedure, as it simulated birth. If there are other forms of rebirthing, they, perhaps, should be allowed, provided that they are indeed safe.

The form of rebirthing that this little girl went through, however, should be banned. I alsothink it would be good to do a thorough check on other forms of it to ensure that they are safe.

I understand the wish to keep the government from interfering too much with things, but when kids are in mortal danger, the interference is necessary.