Judge to parents: I won’t let you kill your kid

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Good news for Daniel Hauser: a judge in Minnesota has ruled that his parents may not refuse him treatment for his cancer, even though he allegedly also wanted to refuse treatment.

The boy is thirteen years old, and dominated by his parents, who are Catholics but also belong to a made-up cult that claims to use “natural healing” methods. His doctors testified that with treatment Daniel has a 90% chance of surviving, whereas without it his chances are 5%.

So why doesn't the kid get to make his own decision?

Well, first off, he's thirteen, and kids that age don't get to make that kind of decision. He can't read. And, as the judge found, Daniel has only a “rudimentary understanding at best of the risks and benefits of chemotherapy. … he does not believe he is ill currently. The fact is that he is very ill currently.”

What's the parents' solution? Treat him with “herbal supplements, vitamins, ionized water, and other natural alternatives — despite testimony from five doctors who agreed Daniel needed chemotherapy.“

Sometime, assuming this kid grows to adulthood, and he understands a little more about life and death, I'll be glad to see him make his own decisions. Now, as a juvenile who has no understanding of the situation he's in, and in the hands of parents who are equally clueless, he needs someone with a level head on his shoulders to protect him from those parents. I'm glad this judge was there.

18 thoughts on “Judge to parents: I won’t let you kill your kid”

  1. In his ruling, Rodenberg noted that at age 13, Daniel can’t read.

    He “noted” that?  I would say that the fact that at 13-year old boy can’t read is worthy of more than “note.”

  2. The Survival of Billy Best Proves Cancer Doctors Wrong about Daniel Hauser

    If there’s one thing that cancer doctors and health authorities can’t stand, it’s being wrong. And in the case of 13-year-old Daniel Hauser, the cancer doctors insist that unless the boy submits to chemotherapy as a “treatment” for Hodgkin’s Lymphoma, he will almost certainly die.

    But there’s a problem with that claim. The problem is a man named Billy Best, now 31 years old, who was diagnosed with Hodgkin’s Lymphoma at the age of 16. Like Daniel Hauser, Billy Best was told he would die if he didn’t submit to chemotherapy. But with remarkable courage and wisdom about his own body’s healing capabilities, Billy Best fled the health authorities, ran away from his family and began eating roots, superfoods and medicinal herbs. He regularly drank an alternative cancer liquid formula (made from plants) and before long his cancer was cured.

    Billy, of course, is alive and well today… fifteen years after his cancer doctors said he should be dead.

    http://www.naturalnews.com/026…

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