Social Services - We Know the Best Medical Treatment for your son
July 17, 2006 by Conservative Culture
Filed under General
Social Services really know what is best for everybody… or so they think they do.
Perhaps you’re familiar with the case involving Starchild Abraham Cherrix. A friend gave me a copy of an Associated Press story in the Chicago Sun-Times and an editorial from The Daily Progress in Charlottesville, Va. She saw the story on CNN and says the family has been on others. It’s gained the exposure you’d expect when a government agency so flagrantly violates a family’s rights. The story also should illustrate how an ever-reaching government is getting that close to deciding for you what once safely would have been your decision.
The 16-year-old last year underwent chemotherapy for Hodgkin’s disease, a cancer of the lymph nodes. The Associated Press reported Abraham, the name he goes by, became nauseated and so weak during the three months of chemotherapy that his father had to carry him. When Abraham learned February that the cancer had returned, he didn’t want to go through chemotherapy again.
“I think it would kill me the second time,” the 16-year-old told AP. So he went to a sugar-free organic diet, herbs and visits to a clinic in Mexico. He’s a minor, so you could argue the decision is his parents’ to make, not his. They support his choice.
A family makes a decision on the best treatment. They have been one route and don’t want that route again. People wonder why Conservatives don’t want big government to get any bigger? Where will it stop?
She asked a judge to require Abraham to continue conventional treatment. The judge in May issued a temporary order finding Jay and Rose Cherrix neglectful for supporting their son’s decision to go with an alternative treatment. They could lose custody of their son…
A Virginia court might decide government officials are better suited than a parent or an actual cancer victim to determine how that person receives treatment. Run that out to the next logical step, and why not let some bureaucrat or judge decide who is suited even to have children? …
But, it’s also another example of someone in government deciding her opinion means more than that of those with a stake in the matter. Give someone a little power and that person usually tries to expand it, always in the name of the greater good. It’s easy to criticize those who do this, but what about the rest of us? What about those who have asked government to expand its powers? What about those who sit by when it doesn’t affect them?
Strange how government knows how to make the best decisions for people. How they have the best interest at heart for the people they enslave rule over govern. Maybe they will understand how much we really care when we tell them what they can’t do by getting the laws changed and keeping more of our money. How much do we pay them to do this kind of stuff anyway?
