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Some choices can and do harm children, but saying religious parents' choices "often do harm" their children is just flatly absurd.
by Semiapies 16y ago
Some choices can and do harm children, but saying religious parents' choices "often do harm" their children is just flatly absurd.
- slammdunc23 16y agoI said "in these cases"--turning down medicine and practicing that form of ritualized circumcision. Perhaps "often" is an overstatement, but there have been many cases of children dying when their Christian Scientist parents refused to get them proper medical attention (see, e.g., http://www.theatlantic.com/past/docs/unbound/flashbks/xsci/suffer.htm http://www.theatlantic.com/past/docs/unbound/flashbks/xsci/s...).
- Semiapies 16y agoI appear to have have missed that phrase last night.