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Originally Posted by Islander
But there are religious extremists who are beyond the reach of common sense. Do we break down doors to remove their children with life-threatening conditions?
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Yes.
I went to school with a girl who was born with a hole in her heart. Her stepmother refused to allow her to have the surgery needed to fix it (when she was old enough, around 10 I think) due to religious reasons. She lived to be 13, and died in a hospital sometime between the end of eighth grade and the start of our freshman year of high school. I always thought her parents should have gone to prison for murder. Sad side story: apparently when she died she was already registered, and nobody notified the school that she wouldn't be coming. She was on all the teachers' rosters and was included in roll calls on our first day of high school and was marked absent all day until fifth period when somebody burst into tears in a history class and went and told the principal that she had died. If only she had just been absent....