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Old 05-22-2009, 03:14 PM
deepimpact2 deepimpact2 is offline
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Originally Posted by AGDee View Post
I am very uncomfortable with the idea of anybody other than a child's parents making these kinds of decisions. These things require parental consent for a reason. And, if you do it for something like chemo, where does it end? What if they decide that NOT doing something like gastric bypass surgery is neglectful because a child is obese?

This is one of those issues where I can totally see both sides and I'm totally uncomfortable with both ideas.
Yeah.

On a slight tangent I also don't like it when a parent forces a child to donate an organ or marrow to a sibling against the child's will.
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