QUESTION In Idaho, medical-care exemptions for faith healing come under fire
More children die of faith-based medical neglect in Idaho than any other state, according to Children’s Healthcare Is a Legal Duty, a nonprofit organization that tracks medical neglect and lobbies to repeal religious medical-care exemptions. The organization’s retired president, Rita Swan, points to the gravesites at Peaceful Valley as evidence. More than 200 of those sites belong to children, and many of their deaths could have been prevented, she said, citing data from gravestones, coroner reports, obituaries and statements from family members.
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Really? People can't get medical care because of greed an incompetance but magic is paid for? WTF?
GoldenMean
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Mar 1, 2018
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Practice should be stopped and those laws repealed. Reprehensible to allow irresponsible parents to kill their children because of a ridiculus superstition. I'm going to create an Activism group post on this later this evening, if anyone cares to join the group.
Once again, your posts to the Washintion Posts are blocked by a paywall. It is not a local computer problem, it is a subscriber service so clearing a cache isn't going to do anything.
RobCampbell
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Feb 28, 2018
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Once again Rob, I have never paid them a cent, and there is no paywall blocking my access, if there was I wouldn't be posting them because I'm a cheap SOB...lol
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