Epic
05-20-2009, 05:15 AM
Do parents have a right to deny kids life-saving treatment over religious beliefs?
21% yes
79% no
The thing is, in the case it is referring to, the kid agrees with his parents. None of them want the chemo. The question is misleading in that way. Also, it is very much in dispute whether chemo is actually "life-saving" or is just a poison. And the family might not be objecting based on religious beliefs, but just a lack of confidence in poisonous mainstream medicine. But I digress. Whether chemo works or not is irrelevant to the principle of the case. The question is, who decides? The family or the government?
I think it's sad that 79% say that the State should control people's medical decisions.
""You have a right, but not an open-ended right," Arthur Caplan, director of the center for bioethics at the University of Pennsylvania"
What is the difference between a right and an open-ended right? I don't get it.
CNN story: mom and kid go missing: http://www.cnn.com/2009/US/05/19/minnesota.forced.chemo/index.html
21% yes
79% no
The thing is, in the case it is referring to, the kid agrees with his parents. None of them want the chemo. The question is misleading in that way. Also, it is very much in dispute whether chemo is actually "life-saving" or is just a poison. And the family might not be objecting based on religious beliefs, but just a lack of confidence in poisonous mainstream medicine. But I digress. Whether chemo works or not is irrelevant to the principle of the case. The question is, who decides? The family or the government?
I think it's sad that 79% say that the State should control people's medical decisions.
""You have a right, but not an open-ended right," Arthur Caplan, director of the center for bioethics at the University of Pennsylvania"
What is the difference between a right and an open-ended right? I don't get it.
CNN story: mom and kid go missing: http://www.cnn.com/2009/US/05/19/minnesota.forced.chemo/index.html