Dueling bills take aim at religious exemption.......
(why no hyperlink tool? or am I missing it?)
Could this possible WI Bill affect jw's? re: blood for children?
by carla 5 Replies latest watchtower beliefs
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dissed
Carla - posting links???
Once you add a link, highlight it. You will notice on the bar above, beneath 'Font Family' a chain link will now turn bold. Click on it and follow the intructions.
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blondie
I just put a space after the link and it lights up
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blondie
Taylor's bill would require a jury to decide, among other things, if a parent or a child's guardian should have recognized a child's symptoms as life threatening and to determine how long the child was experiencing the symptoms. A jury also would have to consider the family's prior experience in relying on medical treatment and prior experience in relying on spiritual healing, prayer or religious treatment. The likelihood that medical treatment would have eliminated the condition is also a stipulation outlined in Taylor's bill for a jury to consider.
Berceau says Taylor's bill is laying out numerous standards that are impossible to answer. "Even when you're talking about treating cancer with chemotherapy, you don't really know the likelihood the chemo will work until you get the treatment," Berceau says. "What she's proposing puts an impossible burden on the court to prove something that can't be proven."
Kaiser says it would become impossible to convict any parent, whether or not their religion is truly a factor or not.
"Do not think that for one minute people who are abusing their kids will not use this. Taylor's bill will end up protecting people who will lie to us and then go and lie to a jury," Kaiser says. "I will have to disprove what they say beyond a shadow of a doubt."
Kaiser isn't alone in that concern.
"It would be next to impossible to find a parent guilty," says Shawn Peters, author of "When Prayer Fails: Faith Healing, Children and the Law," and a lecturer in the UW-Madison School of Education. "Taylor is writing into law the top nine list of defenses invoked by spiritual healing. I find it hard to conceptualize a worse bill than the bill being introduced by Sen. Taylor."
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Shawn Peters has a strong jw connection.
http://search.barnesandnoble.com/Judging-Jehovahs-Witnesses/Shawn-Francis-Peters/e/9780700610082
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carla
sorry, just gotta try out the link thingy
thanks!