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spinbaby (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Mar-27-08 03:36 PM Original message |
Parents Pick Prayer Over Docs; Girl Dies |
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MNDemNY (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Mar-27-08 03:37 PM Response to Original message |
1. Adults can make that choice, for themselves, to make that choice for a child is |
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zanne (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Mar-27-08 03:41 PM Response to Reply #1 |
2. Yes, prosecution is in order. |
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orangerevolution (282 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Mar-27-08 03:42 PM Response to Reply #1 |
4. Careful how you apply that logic |
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Burma Jones (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Mar-27-08 03:46 PM Response to Reply #4 |
6. No, the victim was a person, a fetus isn't |
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orangerevolution (282 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Mar-27-08 03:50 PM Response to Reply #6 |
9. I am just saying |
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Name removed (0 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Mar-27-08 03:53 PM Response to Reply #9 |
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Serial Mom (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Mar-27-08 03:54 PM Response to Reply #9 |
14. What logic? No comparison of a living viable child to cells! |
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orangerevolution (282 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Mar-27-08 03:59 PM Response to Reply #14 |
15. I never said they were comparable. |
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Serial Mom (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Mar-27-08 04:02 PM Response to Reply #15 |
18. Read your post! |
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orangerevolution (282 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Mar-27-08 04:05 PM Response to Reply #18 |
19. I said it was "sounding like" |
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Serial Mom (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Mar-27-08 04:11 PM Response to Reply #19 |
23. Don't bring up abortion on a thread about CHILD ABUSE! |
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nodehopper (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Mar-27-08 04:18 PM Response to Reply #15 |
24. at the point where it's out of the womb n/t |
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uppityperson (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Mar-27-08 11:12 PM Response to Reply #15 |
54. Is this first picture a child medicine could do amazing things with? |
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fasttense (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Mar-28-08 06:35 AM Response to Reply #15 |
64. When the clump of cells is out of the Mother. |
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Name removed (0 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Mar-27-08 03:46 PM Response to Reply #4 |
7. Deleted sub-thread |
Serial Mom (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Mar-27-08 03:49 PM Response to Reply #4 |
8. This was a child who had a very managable sickness! |
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calimary (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Mar-27-08 07:48 PM Response to Reply #8 |
44. And they're not fanatics or anything. Nah... no way. |
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scot (145 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Mar-28-08 12:36 AM Response to Reply #44 |
55. Like anorexics never think they're skinny. |
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calimary (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Mar-28-08 01:11 AM Response to Reply #55 |
56. Welcome to DU! |
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bdamomma (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Mar-27-08 10:17 PM Response to Reply #8 |
52. exactly, it is a treatable disease, I just don't understand |
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varkam (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Mar-27-08 03:50 PM Response to Reply #4 |
10. Of course there's a major difference between an 11-year-old girl and a fetus. |
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China_cat (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Mar-27-08 03:51 PM Response to Reply #4 |
11. Oh bullshit. |
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Scairp (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Mar-27-08 05:08 PM Response to Reply #4 |
29. Waaay off the mark |
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uppityperson (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Mar-27-08 11:05 PM Response to Reply #4 |
53. Oh bullshit. Search is instructive. |
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crim son (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Mar-28-08 05:36 PM Response to Reply #4 |
75. You are getting flack for this statement but I agree. |
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hyphenate (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Mar-27-08 08:50 PM Response to Reply #1 |
46. I don't know whether it could be called |
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MNDemNY (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Mar-27-08 09:05 PM Response to Reply #46 |
48. Patato-potato |
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hyphenate (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Mar-27-08 09:08 PM Response to Reply #48 |
49. . |
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awoke_in_2003 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Mar-28-08 07:08 AM Response to Reply #48 |
66. You forgot the "e" |
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PittPoliSci (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Mar-27-08 03:42 PM Response to Original message |
3. assholes. sadists. |
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Red Zelda (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Mar-27-08 03:46 PM Response to Original message |
5. These religious sadists will call it god's will |
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awoke_in_2003 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Mar-27-08 03:52 PM Response to Original message |
12. Maybe one day |
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superconnected (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Mar-27-08 04:00 PM Response to Reply #12 |
16. Why would anyone who believed answer you? |
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awoke_in_2003 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Mar-27-08 04:31 PM Response to Reply #16 |
25. You are correct... |
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Thothmes (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Mar-27-08 06:51 PM Response to Reply #25 |
36. then we can rely on the government to save us? |
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Ian David (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Mar-28-08 06:32 AM Response to Reply #36 |
61. We can rely upon ourselves and on We The People. n/t |
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awoke_in_2003 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Mar-28-08 07:02 AM Response to Reply #36 |
65. No, we can rely |
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LanternWaste (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Mar-27-08 05:15 PM Response to Reply #12 |
31. Yes. |
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JerseygirlCT (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Mar-27-08 07:21 PM Response to Reply #12 |
40. Yes, I do. |
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awoke_in_2003 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Mar-28-08 07:21 AM Response to Reply #40 |
67. One is significant |
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JerseygirlCT (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Mar-28-08 07:28 AM Response to Reply #67 |
68. Did I say anywhere that I believed we are the ONLY |
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awoke_in_2003 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Mar-28-08 07:44 AM Response to Reply #68 |
70. "(just not in the White House)." |
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sinkingfeeling (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Mar-27-08 04:01 PM Response to Original message |
17. My dog has been diabetic for 4 years. I test her blood and give her insulin 3 times a day. |
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harmonicon (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Mar-27-08 04:07 PM Response to Original message |
20. murderers |
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JerseygirlCT (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Mar-27-08 04:08 PM Response to Original message |
21. I don't know that this is the case here specifically |
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readmoreoften (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Mar-28-08 06:27 AM Response to Reply #21 |
60. Actually it makes perfect sense. God expects you never to intervene with 'his' children. However... |
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Bo (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Mar-27-08 04:08 PM Response to Original message |
22. MORE NUTJOBS FOR JESUS |
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Akoto (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Mar-27-08 04:39 PM Response to Original message |
26. How tragic. Prompt treatment for this usually results in full recovery. |
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Serial Mom (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Mar-27-08 04:45 PM Response to Reply #26 |
27. And she wouldn't had to have been treated for this, if her diabetes was treated! |
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KamaAina (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Mar-27-08 04:50 PM Response to Original message |
28. The mom's name is Leilani Neumann? Oh noes! |
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GoddessOfGuinness (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Mar-27-08 05:43 PM Response to Reply #28 |
35. Nut cases come in all flavors. |
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mainer (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Mar-27-08 07:03 PM Response to Reply #28 |
38. Unless she was military born in Hawaii |
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LanternWaste (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Mar-27-08 05:14 PM Response to Original message |
30. It would appear that these parents didn't fully understand |
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JerseygirlCT (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Mar-27-08 07:23 PM Response to Reply #30 |
41. The rowboat story |
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AdHocSolver (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Mar-28-08 01:41 AM Response to Reply #41 |
58. This story came to mind as soon as I read the OP. |
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Wizard777 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Mar-27-08 05:16 PM Response to Original message |
32. I wonder what a study like they do with medicines would reveal about prayer? |
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darue (383 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Mar-27-08 09:57 PM Response to Reply #32 |
51. it's been done. very extensive study on prayer. it has zero effect, even seemed slightly to harm |
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readmoreoften (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Mar-28-08 06:32 AM Response to Reply #32 |
62. Yes, if a pharmaceutical company gives a diabetic insulin that kills them when they need it then it |
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vinylsolution (807 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Mar-27-08 05:16 PM Response to Original message |
33. And the right wingnuts say Islam is a religion fixated by death.... |
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Ellen Forradalom (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Mar-28-08 01:25 AM Response to Reply #33 |
57. Tell me about it |
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Javaman (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Mar-27-08 05:37 PM Response to Original message |
34. The bent logic of the religious nuts... |
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Taverner (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Mar-27-08 06:54 PM Response to Reply #34 |
37. Yup |
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hyphenate (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Mar-27-08 08:57 PM Response to Reply #37 |
47. I just wanted to say |
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awoke_in_2003 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Mar-28-08 07:37 AM Response to Reply #47 |
69. " Bush looks like he's got constipation" |
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Ian David (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Mar-28-08 06:32 AM Response to Reply #34 |
63. If she floats, she's a witch. If she dies, she was innocent. n/t |
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Manifestor_of_Light (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Mar-27-08 07:19 PM Response to Original message |
39. they've prosecuted Christian Scientists for negligent homicide before. n/t |
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goodgd_yall (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Mar-27-08 07:36 PM Response to Original message |
42. Poor dear |
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krabigirl (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Mar-27-08 07:42 PM Response to Original message |
43. Yikes! what is wrong with people??! |
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hyphenate (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Mar-27-08 08:49 PM Response to Original message |
45. WTF? |
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darue (383 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Mar-27-08 09:55 PM Response to Original message |
50. charge them with MURDER and WHY didn't the court remove that child from their custody? |
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onager (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Mar-28-08 04:45 AM Response to Original message |
59. Time for the Robert Heinlein quote again... |
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Pavlovs DiOgie (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Mar-28-08 08:06 AM Response to Original message |
71. As a parent of a child with diabetes |
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LeftHander (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Mar-28-08 09:39 AM Response to Original message |
72. Hate to say it....but they need to be arrested for neglect.... |
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LynneSin (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Mar-28-08 09:40 AM Response to Original message |
73. I'm wondering if they tried that because they could not afford doctors |
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Mothers (2 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Mar-28-08 02:55 PM Response to Original message |
74. Blaming Prayers, more to the story then meets the eye.. |
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