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Offline poche

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« on: August 23, 2013, 11:21:09 PM »
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  • An Ohio hospital is fighting to force a 10-year-old Amish girl with leukemia to resume chemotherapy after her parents decided to stop the treatments.

    Akron Children's Hospital is appealing a judge's decision that blocked an attorney who's also a registered nurse from taking over limited guardianship and making medical decisions for the girl.

    The hospital believes the girl will die without chemotherapy and is morally and legally obligated to make sure she receives proper care, said Robert McGregor, the hospital's chief medical officer.

    "We really have to advocate for what we believe is in the best interest of the child," he said Friday.

    The parents initially allowed chemotherapy treatment in May but stopped treatment in June. The parents said the effects on their daughter were horrible and that they were now relying on natural medicines, such as herbs and vitamins, The Medina Gazette reported.

    The girl told a probate and juvenile judge that she didn't want chemotherapy because it made feel ill, can damage her organs and make her infertile, the newspaper said.

    Medina County Probate and Juvenile Judge John Lohn said he could only transfer guardianship if the parents were found unfit.

    "The court cannot deprive these parents of their right to make medical decisions for their daughter, because there is not a scintilla of evidence showing the parents are unfit," Lohn wrote in a ruling issued on July 31.

    An injunction, however, was issued in mid-August that ordered the family to resume treatment immediately until the issue was resolved. The hospital said the family only has visited once since then.

    McGregor said the girl's illness — lymphoblastic lymphoma — is an aggressive form of non-Hodgkin lymphoma and is very curable if she continues treatment.

    http://news.yahoo.com/ohio-hospital-force-amish-girl-chemo-161944568.html

    I would like to know to what degree do you think the courts should get involved in this situation?


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    « Reply #1 on: August 24, 2013, 07:45:05 AM »
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  • I wish Catholics would copy the primitive technology living of the omish.

    They probably think she can be healed by prayer, but does God listen to those who are outside His church? BOD question! Too complicated for me.
    but if the courts can do this to the amish they can do it to us.
    Therefore to protect future Catholics in this situation I say let her parents not have their wishes and let her go without chemo if she don't want it.
    Crux Sacra Sit Mihi Lux! Ne Draco Sit Mihi Dux!


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    « Reply #2 on: August 24, 2013, 12:29:21 PM »
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  • I see what TCat is saying, but the bottom line is that the Amish don't believe in Baptism until adulthood. It seems like these parents are potentially damning their own daughter to Hell. I get "having faith" about sicknesses, but I can't support the Amish letting even one un-Baptised child die.
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    « Reply #3 on: September 06, 2013, 12:20:20 AM »
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  • A 10-year-old Amish girl will not be forced to undergo chemotherapy, an Ohio judge has ruled, siding with the girl's parents, who say previous chemotherapy made her sick.

    Though an appeals court sent the case back to a judge for further consideration last week, Judge John Lohn denied temporary limited guardianship to a nurse and dismissed the case in Medina County, Ohio, explaining that the Hershbergers are "good parents."

    "They live a simple life, but this does not mean they are simple-minded," Lohn wrote in the ruling.

    In April, Sarah Hershberger was diagnosed with lymphoblastic lymphoma, which resulted in tumors on her neck, chest and kidneys, according to court records. Sarah started chemotherapy at Akron Children's Hospital in Medina County, Ohio, but her parents, Andy and Anna Hershberger, decided to stop the treatments in June.

    Sarah has an 85 percent chance of survival with chemotherapy, according to a statement from Akron Children's Hospital. Without it, the cancer is "almost always fatal," the hospital wrote on its webpage about Sarah's case.

    "We've seen how sick it makes her," Andy Hershberger told Good Morning America in a phone interview last week."Our belief is the natural stuff will do just as much as that stuff if it's God's will. She would have more suffering doing chemo than not."

    The Hershbergers believe chemotherapy will kill Sarah, but they don't object to resuming it "at some point in the future," Lohn wrote in his ruling.

    "Akron Children's Hospital is disappointed in Judge Lohn's ruling," the hospital said in a statement. "We believe this case is about children's rights and giving a 10-year-old girl an 85 percent chance of survival with treatment."

    Lohn wrote that the chemotherapy wasn't a surefire cure, and that the Hershbergers weren't informed about its side effects.

    "Sarah says her doctor should be put in jail," Lohn wrote. "Even if the treatments are successful, there is a very good chance Sarah will become infertile and have other serious health risks for the rest of her

    http://gma.yahoo.com/amish-girl-10-wont-forced-chemo-judge-rules-204410574--abc-news-topstories.html

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    « Reply #4 on: September 06, 2013, 02:26:55 AM »
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  • Quote from: StCeciliasGirl
    I see what TCat is saying, but the bottom line is that the Amish don't believe in Baptism until adulthood. It seems like these parents are potentially damning their own daughter to Hell. I get "having faith" about sicknesses, but I can't support the Amish letting even one un-Baptised child die.


    Children are not "damned to hell" for being unbaptised.

    Her parents do not "let her die". Only God knows how long He alots us.

    Besides nobody ever died of not being treated with chemotherapy, though some people do die from its drastic effects.
    Help of Christians, guard our land from assault or inward stain,
    Let it be what God has planned, His new Eden where You reign.


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    « Reply #5 on: September 06, 2013, 10:28:16 AM »
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  • Quote from: Nadir
    Children are not "damned to hell" for being unbaptised.


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    « Reply #6 on: September 06, 2013, 01:20:41 PM »
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  • Quote from: Nadir
    Children are not "damned to hell" for being unbaptised.

    Yes they are. Lots of them. For being unbaptized and for their sins.
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    « Reply #7 on: September 06, 2013, 04:55:58 PM »
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  • This is off the topic; this thread is "Forced Chemotherapy". There are plenty of other threads on what happens after death.

    But children are not "damned to hell" for being unbaptised. (Sins are a different matter). For them there is Limbo. Limbo is not hell.
    Help of Christians, guard our land from assault or inward stain,
    Let it be what God has planned, His new Eden where You reign.


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    « Reply #8 on: September 06, 2013, 04:57:01 PM »
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  • Quote from: Nadir
    This is off the topic; there are plenty of other threads on what happens after death. But children are not "damned to hell" for being unbaptised. (Sins are a different matter). For them there is Limbo. Limbo is not hell.

    Limbo is a part of Hell so it is fine to say they are damned to Hell. They are in the most pleasant part of Hell.
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