I have torn feelings about the issue between the courts and the mom running with her 13 year old boy.The boy has cancer and the courts have issued an order that the boy has chemotherapy for the cancer.The family is refusing treatment due to religous beliefs, they practice a native american religion where the “religion is the medicine” according to them. He has Hodgkin’s lymphoma, which has an 80% survival rate with chemotherapy, thats pretty good odds. The boy understands what he is doing by refusing treatment but the judge said because the boy has a learning disability and can’t read because of it, he is unable to make an informed decision so they did it for him.
On the other hand this country was founded on religous freedoms and as long as we have that and the fact that the mother is trying other natural cancer treatments they should leave the family alone. There have ben other people in very similar situations that have lived by using natural cancer treatments, in fact they are becoming quite effective and gaining popularity. The treatment the family is believed to be trying has already been proven to work on Hodgkin’s lymphoma, so why is the court even getting involved? Not to mention the running from the law is surely causing the boy stress and making him weaker.
Why does the courts need to get involved in our personal business, no laws were being broken? They are treating the cancer, does it have to be the treatment they say and everything else is wrong? I am also not very fond of chemotherapy, it is basically a race, will it kill you or the cancer first. I have known or been related to many people who have had cancer and watching them go thru chemo is hard, I can’t imagine what they go thru. I guess I think they should let them do what they want for treatment. I thought America was free, we don’t need anybody telling us how to live or what to do.
