| Ilena Rose 2006-08-29, 4:28 pm |
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Delegate to introduce legislation to protect family medical rights
http://www.wavy.com/Global/story.asp?S=5334664&nav=23ii
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.
Earlier this month he won the court battle.
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.
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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