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Court Forces Family To Give Teen Chemotherapy Against Rabbi's Advice [View all]
he family court in Tiberias has forced a 14-year-old boy suffering from lymphatic leukemia to undergo chemotherapy even though he and his parents have refused to allow him to undergo additional cancer treatment at a hospital in Haifa. The court stated that the boy had not been received from his parents accurate information on his chances for recovery if he underwent chemotherapy and radiation therapy.
The success rate for blood cancers in children and teenagers is very high, and the boys blood cancer receded. But the parents refused continuing treatment to keep the cancer in remission, saying that their family rabbi instructed them not to allow him to have the treatments because he would recover without them.
The parents told the court they were afraid their son would die from the therapy and that if the police came after them, they would take him to a hiding place. The boy said his previous treatments were very painful and that he preferred to go home and die.
http://www.vosizneias.com/167243/2014/06/11/family-court-in-tiberias-forces-teen-to-undergo-cancer-treatment-jpost-israel-news/
The success rate for blood cancers in children and teenagers is very high, and the boys blood cancer receded. But the parents refused continuing treatment to keep the cancer in remission, saying that their family rabbi instructed them not to allow him to have the treatments because he would recover without them.
The parents told the court they were afraid their son would die from the therapy and that if the police came after them, they would take him to a hiding place. The boy said his previous treatments were very painful and that he preferred to go home and die.
http://www.vosizneias.com/167243/2014/06/11/family-court-in-tiberias-forces-teen-to-undergo-cancer-treatment-jpost-israel-news/
Religious ignorance, alive and well. I hope this boy beats his cancer and recovers (from cancer AND the religious ignorance forced upon him)
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Court Forces Family To Give Teen Chemotherapy Against Rabbi's Advice [View all]
cleanhippie
Jun 2014
OP
sounds more like practicing medicine without a license than religious ignorance.
unblock
Jun 2014
#2
"The boy said his previous treatments were very painful and that he preferred to 'go home and die'”
rug
Jun 2014
#3
"The court stated that the boy had not been received from his parents accurate information..."
cleanhippie
Jun 2014
#4
I don't have a clue, but if it's as young as 14, it shouldn't be. N.T.
Donald Ian Rankin
Jun 2014
#8
No one can make an informed decision if they have info intentionally withheld.
cleanhippie
Jun 2014
#21
Your question is irrelevant. He didn't have all the info in order to make one.
cleanhippie
Jun 2014
#26
Do you think the family should have listened to the rabbi, and stopped treatment? n/t
trotsky
Jun 2014
#14
But that's the problem, they didn't want to listen to him. They wanted him to do what they believed
cleanhippie
Jun 2014
#30
" The boy said his previous treatments were very painful and that he preferred to “go home and die.”
Warpy
Jun 2014
#31
"The court stated that the boy had not been received from his parents accurate information..."
cleanhippie
Jun 2014
#33
That Rabbi was practicing medicine without a license, he belongs in jail.
Humanist_Activist
Jun 2014
#13