At 09:11 AM 11/26/2002 +0100, Richard Barker wrote:

>I believe in America (might be the case in the UK, not sure) that certain
>religious groups are allowed to refuse life saving operations on their
>children as it's against their religious beliefs.  Murder effectively.  Yet
>it's somehow acceptable as it's in the name of some misguided naive
>belief(in my opinion).

Not true. If a parent endangers a child's life by refusing medical
treatment, courts can force the treatments to take place and even terminate
the parental rights of the parents. Nor is there written into law any wider
religious freedoms for "certain religious groups" than others.

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Tom Brandt
Northtech Systems, Inc.
130 S. 1st Street, Suite 220
Ann Arbor, MI 48104
http://www.northtech.com/

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