Minnesota authorities issued a nationwide alert this week for a mother and her 13-year-old son who has Hodgkin’s lymphoma after they failed to show up for a medical appointment and a court appearance.

After a court-ordered X-ray on Monday showed that Daniel Hauser’s tumor returned to the size it was in January when first diagnosed, his mother Colleen and Daniel left their family home and cannot be found. Daniel’s parents did not wish to have their child receive any more chemotherapy treatments and instead sought alternative treatments. District Court Judge John Rodenberg viewed this move as being one of medical neglect and has issued an arrest warrant for Colleen Hauser. Rodenberg has also ordered that Daniel be immediately removed from the custody of his parents and placed in foster care.

Brown County Family Services, who instigated the legal action believes they are “trying to do what’s right for this young man.” Judge Rodenberg says that Minnesota statutes require parents to provide necessary medical care for a child, and he interprets the statutes as saying alternative and complementary health care methods aren’t enough.

In an attempt to gloss over some pretty serious parental rights’ trampling, Rodenberg also let it be known that because Daniel has a learning disability, he does not understand the risks and benefits of chemotherapy. In Rodenberg’s mind, that somehow opens the door even wider for the state to step in and make medical decisions in opposition to the family’s.

Both Rodenberg and the Minnesota state legislature who passed such a statute are guilty of defining what is medically necessary, establishing a standard for everyone,  and in doing so, they control the system and it’s outcome. This is global village thinking -- UN Rights of the Child.

According to natural law -- God-given -- the true interests of the child reside with the parents. The state has no claim on children in a free society. It is only in a socialist state where the government usurps this right and children become creatures of the state, the state having assumed power it rightly shouldn’t have.

While the family services people and the judge may not believe in God and God-given rights, certainly a basic understanding that parental rights are tantamount to keeping the state out of child-rearing and the populace free should be obvious, even to dedicated democracy-bandying liberals.

The judge and social services are not protecting this young lad from anything but are forcing him to receive a dangerous drug that can kill. Everyone knows chemotherapy carries with it huge risks, side effects, and is not a cure-all. However, this protocol has been chosen over time by the drug companies and the medical establishment as “the” method for combating cancer; our white-coated nannies will demand submission, and will get it, one way or another.

It’s interesting to note that UW Hospital in Madison is being sued because its staff decided to withhold medical treatment for two developmentally disabled patients, one a 72-year-old man who survived in spite of no treatment. His family was part of the decision to withhold, but then changed their minds and had to fight hospital staff for reinstatement. The other was a 13-year-old with pneumonia who was not given simple antibiotics and also denied nutrition and fluids per a family/doctor decision. He did die. Were the actions in these cases ethical and moral because the decision was made by the hospital? Where are the judges and advocates for the developmentally disabled now? Or is it now politically correct to quietly nudge developmentally disabled people into their grave a little sooner?

I wonder where the concerned Judge Rodenberg, Brown County Family Services employees, and hospital physicians stand on murdering babies in the womb? Seems that’s usually something they are more than happy to leave up to the mother.

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Natalia said:

	... parents are stupid
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Pat Henry said:

	... and governments (made up of REALLY power-hungry parents) are stupider
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RichardR369 said:

Parental Rights Why are we as a nation so willingly giving up our God given rights in the Constitution? Parental rights are superior to judges, courts, governments, etc.... They probably figured out the inherit problems with our government run medical system and found it corrupt. MD's are coming out of college as legal drug pushers instead of looking for natural cures. Were these parents neglecting their child? Of course not. They were looking for 'medical alternatives' and not guilty of 'medical neglect'. They were trying to get out of the matrix and got busted. The only stupid people are the ones so freely giving up their rights in the name of humanitarian aid.

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SCHNORCHEL said:

Lebensunwürdige Leben This ghastly situation sounds like another example of Hitler's euthanasia program of exterminating people deemed to have "Lives unworthy of Living." Hitler's project was called "Project Luzifer." It was aimed at governmental killing people of with handicaps, or, as Hitler called their lives, "Lebensunwürdige Leben". There also is a book called "World Without Cancer" by G. Edward Griffin, that explains this same Satanic attitude by the American Cancer Society and by the American Medical Association toward alternative, non-invasive medicine using hormone therapy or Laetrile, (Vitamin B-17). This therapy is available in Mexico and has saved many lives that are endangered by American Medical Association medicine. American medical doctors can go to jail for administering the therapy. The book World without Cancer can be bought at http://www.shopjbs.org/magento...ncer.html. Mexican medical doctors can legally administer it south of the border. I know personally people who have had cancer go into remission from this therapy, by going to Mexico and paying for it out of their pockets, as Medicare and other American insurers refused to cover it. After the US merges with Mexico under NAFTA and SPP, it will no longer be available either in Mexico or in the U.S., I conjecture. The American People are in great danger.

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Charles_Byrd said:

	Right Or Wrong Personally I disagree with the parents decision not to use chemo (I knew someone who got devoured by a cancer that would have been treated by chemo, unfortunately he chose laetrile and the ministrations of a "psychic healer."), however it is their child and they have a right to raise him in accordance to their beliefs.
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