Good Shepherd Church (LCMS)

Whoa Nellie! I am alarmed at this: in the news, it was reported that a 13 year old boy with Lymphoma was going to be MADE to undergo Chemotherapy. A local judge imposed that ruling on a family who HAD tried it briefly, and made a decision to try alternative means.

While the family is planning to appeal this ruling, the potential precedent is just plain nuts. The implication that the state can manage family affairs better than the family can is unnerving. We're not talking about an abused child...this is a 13 year old boy who can think and reason along with his parents. I'm not sure that subjecting a child to chemotherapy is any less "abusive" than striving for health/healing through other methods.

I know, I know...I've got a "conspiracy theorist" streak in me...but, if this ruling is upheld, I would wonder when and where it would stop. What else can the state make us do? Medical research and science is great...but, everyone can name mistaken treatments from recent history. I'd rather not consider our fine physicians and our medications to be God. They don't want that pressure either...