Yeah, children. They are a hard thing for anarchy. Looking back, Bukharin, Lenin, didn't have much to say about children, as people. OTOH, since the workers at that time included children, maybe the were justified in ignoring the issue and just robbing banks. Where, then, there was no FDIC.:) MacN If the sarcasm isn't dripping, scuse me I tried.
*| *|The parents are the ONLY ones who have a right to determin the welfare of *|their childern. If the parents determin that the risks of reaction to the *|innoculation outways the benifits that choice is their's and their's alone. *|
Not in every case do the parents have the right to determine what treatment shall be performed or whether it shall occur at all. More often than not the courts have allowed medical treatment for the child who is not able to consent to such treatment for himself.
In many instances courts have stepped in to authorize blood transfusions for children of Jehovah's Witnesses, who follow Biblical injunctions not to "eat" blood (Gen. 9:4). Recently the Church of Christ Scientist [?] has been under societal and governmental attack for insisting on substituting healers for medical teams even in cases of children afflicted by cancer accompanied by apparently unbearable pain.
Parents most certainly are not the only ones to determine the welfare of their children; society has assumed a significant role and typically moves to protect the child from the parents or from the _beliefs_ of the parents.
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