| awthrawthr@yahoo.com 2006-08-01, 9:26 pm |
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> Adults can assume risk. Children cannot, by definition. Legally.
Their parents decide what medical risks their children will take.
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> A court can order that they are allowed to make a single decision, but
> there is no law or case finding that says it's a blanket right of children.
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>That would be, and think about it, a very dangerous precedent to set.
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>Egad.
The bigger "egad" is a State usurping the parents. While you would
obviously prefer that your child be subjected to chemo if, God forbid,
s/he had cancer, you surely wouldn't be happy if outsiders took custody
away from you to inflict their own decision in your place.
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> "Democracy is two wolves and a lamb voting on what
> to have for lunch. Liberty is a well armed lamb
> contesting the vote." - Benjamin Franklin (or someone else)
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