TIL that almost every year since 2015, Idaho children have died of treatable conditions. Their parents refuse medical care. It's legal in Idaho, the state just lets it happen.

http://www.propublica.org/article/faith-healing-idaho-deaths-followers-of-christ

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/51112775

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Deni@sh.itjust.works · 4 pts · 9d

If a mother wanted her child to see a doctor but was not permitted to take the child anywhere, that would be murder.

nkat2112@sh.itjust.works · 4 pts · 9d

This is not a feel-good story, to say the least, and I couldn't bring myself to read this article. Even the accompanying image, with the following caption, is disturbing:

Since the 1970s, the state’s criminal and civil laws have allowed parents who belong to Followers of Christ and other faith-healing sects to pray as their children die

piccolo@sh.itjust.works · 3 pts · 9d

So if abortion is illegal in your state.. Just go to Idaho and give your kids measles from your anti vax friends and refuse medical care to have a legal post birth abortion.