UPDATE: Minnesota Teen, Parents Fight Courts to Refuse Cancer Treatment

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http://www.startribune.com/local/45...qyP4O:DW3ckUiD3aPc:_Yyc:aU1yDEmP:QMDCinchO7DU

UPDATE: the courts ruled the kid had to have the chemo against her parents' wishes...AND NOW HIS MOTHER HAS TAKEN HIM AND ARE CURRENTLY MISSING...allegedly out of the country...police are looking for him...kid will die without the treatment.

WOW!




http://www.startribune.com/lifestyl...rksLckD8EQDUoaEyqyP4O:DW3ckUiD3aPc:_Yyc:aUUsZ

Basically, a 13 year-old boy and his parents are part of a native american religious group that doesn't believe in chemotherapy...the boy has cancer (which is apparently 95% curable with chemo)...but still the parents don't want their son to get treatment.

The courts are arguing that the child is too young to fully understand the situation and that the parents are guilty of child endangerment.

YOUR THOUGHTS?? Should the parents have the right to decide for their son what they do about the cancer? Or do the courts have the right to force the boy to be treated?
 
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Legacy said:
YOUR THOUGHTS?? Should the parents have the right to decide for their son what they do about the cancer?
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They do, and will still, have that right. Doing nothing is not one of those choices.

The courts are arguing that the child is too young to fully understand the situation and that the parents are guilty of child endangerment.
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Agreed.

"Religious freedom" has its limits.
 
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They do, and will still, have that right. Doing nothing is not one of those choices.


Agreed.

"Religious freedom" has its limits.
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yea I hope the judge forces the treatment. i mean there are many instances in society where government is allowed to intrude on parenting...in this case they need to do it because it is endangering the kids life in a situation which otherwise sounds like it could be easily resolved with the treatment.
 
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Ah, religions that don't believe in medicine.

*shakes head* I really don't see how it can even conflict. Can't live in the past with that stuff. Traditions are traditions, but you don't keep smashing a stick into the ground with a brick if you have something better.
 
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The courts are arguing that the child is too young to fully understand the situation and that the parents are guilty of child endangerment.
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Agreed wholeheartedly. I support the right to refuse treatment, but only for yourself. Not for others, not even your own children.

Ah, everyone knows about the ancient Native American legends about chemotherapy, passed down since before European colonizers.
 
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I support the right to refuse treatment, but only for yourself. Not for others, not even your own children.
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The child has the mental capacity to decide? If so, what else can the child decide for itself? Why does the child need parents?

So yeah, I support the parents here.

On the other hand, do the parents have the right to deny their child life-saving treatments? I would say no.

Unfortunately, the US Supreme Court has already decided in a similar case regarding the Jehovah's Witnesses, religion trumps sanity regarding health care.

It is what it is.
 
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These parents should be At Risk Survivors for the Darwin Award *shot

But seriously, why is noone trying to get these people some treatment, even by force? If this kid is 13, I think he should have a good idea on what cancer is and that it's very bad. And he should not listen to his parents and treat it. Punishment from them is better than death from it.
 
And the mom and her son are now missing and some are speculating that she took the kid out of the country.
 
....I have no words. I mean, WOW. How much of a religious zealot can someone BE?
 
That's just sad. D:

While I support religious freedom in the US. There has to be a line drawn in the sand when things go too far.

This is going too far. If it is treatable....then allow the child to live. D:
 
People DO have a choice on whether they get treatment or not. If you're not 18, then your parents or guardians decide. A lot of people decide not to get chemo or any treatments. Anyway, the government should stay out of it.
 
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People DO have a choice on whether they get treatment or not. If you're not 18, then your parents or guardians decide. A lot of people decide not to get chemo or any treatments. Anyway, the government should stay out of it.
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And people have a choice between dying and living. This is for the welfare of the kid, not for the moms beliefs. The government should interfere.
 
Minnesota boy prepares for chemo, ends legal fight

A 13-year-old cancer patient is preparing for chemotherapy after a legal fight to treat him naturally and a tense six days when the boy and his mother left the state in violation of a court order.

Daniel Hauser's parents agreed Tuesday to let him receive chemotherapy for a growing tumor caused by Hodgkin's lymphoma. He was scheduled to be examined Wednesday by a pediatric oncologist at Children's Hospitals and Clinics of Minnesota and receive a round of chemo Thursday.

In exchange for agreeing to the hospital treatment, a judge allowed Colleen and Anthony Hauser to keep custody of their son.

An attorney for family services in southern Minnesota's Brown County opposed handing custody back, citing the mother's run from the law with her son in tow.

The family prefers natural healing practices suggested by a religious group called the Nemenhah Band, which says it follows American Indian beliefs.
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Well...They finally came to their senses. =/
 
Idiots. As long as they came to their senses I am happy but man idiots. I hate it.
 
Okay, once I saw the update I caught myself before I slammed my head into the desk. One of the few times I seriously felt like doing that. Though I'm still pissed.
 
I just want to know if they truly believed the "natural remedies" were going to work on their son. And seriously, when they did the second x-ray/scan and saw the tumor had grown, why didn't they say "Hey, you know what? This natural stuff isn't working, maybe we should give chemo a try!" That's what I don't understand because at that point, it is/was clear that their methods weren't working and their own son was on the path to death. And they were ok with it?
 
Sounds like they're in a cult, really. And what cult doesn't insist that members let their kids die?
 
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