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Ilena Rose wrote:
> Delegate to introduce legislation to protect family medical rights
> http://www.wavy.com/Global/story.asp?S=5334664&nav=23ii
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> At the state capitol on Monday, a local delegate will take the first
> step towards enacting a new patient's rights law - inspired by an
> Eastern Shore teen.
>
> Abraham Cherrix fought in court for months to use alternative medicine
> to treat his Hodgkins Disease.
>
> Social Services wanted him to undergo chemotherapy.
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> Earlier this month he won the court battle.
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> Monday, Virginia Beach Delegate John Welch will present a bill he
> calls "Abraham's Law" to ensure others don't go through what the
> Cherrix family did.
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> This is a bill Delegate Welch strongly believes in--
>
> He says it was horrifing to see that Abraham's parents were being
> punished for doing what they thought was best for their son.
>
> He's hoping that type of battle never happens in Virginia again.
>
> It was a court case that pitted a local family up against a state
> agency.
>
> "It's my right to chose and that's what I wanted" Abraham has said.
>
> For almost five months, Accomack's Abraham Cherrix and his family
> battled Social Sevices for the right to treat his cancer the way he
> wanted to.
>
> It was a fight which made national news - an exauhasting ordeal - but
> in the end, Abraham won. Now some local politicians are trying to
> make sure that what the Cherrix family went through doesn't happen to
> another family.
>
> "No state agency should have the authority to do what the local Social
> Services did to this family." said Delegate John Welch
>
> "I think what we as legislators need to do is close all of the
> loopholes that we can to make sure we don't put another judge in this
> predicament."
>
> Loopholes such as determining the defintion of terminally ill.
>
> "I think it is extremely important to every parent in Virginia to see
> this pass. No one would have ever dreamed - especially the Cherrix -
> ever dreamed their biggest enemy would have been government - not this
> Hodgkins Lymphomia that attacked thier child" said Welch.
>
> Virginia is still in its special session. No one really knows how long
> it will last. If the bill doesn't get passed during the special
> session Delegate Welch says he plans to propose it again during the
> general session in January.
>
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> www.BreastImplantAwareness.org/blog.htm
>
> www.BreastImplantAwareness.org/QuackWatchWatch.htm
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