Idaho Republican: "Children do die — it’s a way of life.”

[IDemo]

Idaho Republican sees no reason to require faith-healing parents to seek medical treatment for dying kids

An Idaho Republican is refusing to back a proposal that would require religious parents to seek medical care for their dying children — but he won’t promise any changes to a state law protecting faith healers.

Parents are allowed under state law to substitute prayer as a form of medical treatment and carves out a religious exemption to manslaughter, capital murder and negligent homicide charges if those prayers go unanswered and their child dies.

Critics of the law said some Idaho children are needlessly dying from treatable ailments such as diabetes, pneumonia and food poisoning-related dehydration, reported KOIN-TV.

“These are not things children die of in our time,” said Linda Martin, who has been pushing for changes to the law. “This is what children died of back in the 1800s — not in the 2000.”

http://www.rawstory.com/2016/01/idaho-republican-sees-no-reason-to-require-faith-healing-parents-to-seek-medical-treatment-for-dying-kids/

[KT2000]

1. let me guess -

said republican is anti-abortion.

[Orsino]

2. "Someone's always gotta be dead, Edith--that's life." n/t

[maxrandb]

3. "Well, when you make a Religious Freedumb Omelete

you're going to break a few eggs"

Sick bastards. Stories like this make me question whether there is a God, and if there is, I want to ask him to stop the world so I can get off.

[Neon Gods]

4. "Nothing fails like prayer"

After the Terri Schiavo fiasco (where national politicians bent the laws and millions of Christians around the world prayed that she be restored to health went completely unanswered), one would think people would catch on.

[KamaAina]

5. "Life begins at conception and ends at birth."

[HuckleB]

6. It's time to call these charlatans out, for once and for all.

[edhopper]

7. Because God forbid

we get in the way of anyone's religion. Even if it kills someone.

[katsy]

8. Ugh

What is it with the gop?

Snyder in MI has hurt thousands of kids with tainted water to save a buck and this guy thinks it's ok that babies die from medical conditions that aren't life threatening in this day and age.

The gop, as exhibited by their policies, are depraved individuals. Serial killers come to mind for I don't know why but something is missing in them. What's ironic is their piety...