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Preface
This
report comprehensively evaluates current Department of Health
and Human Services policy regarding state religious exemptions
to medical care for children.
The Report's analysis demonstrates that the Department's
policy of accepting and perpetuating the state exemptions
must bear major responsibility for the unnecessary suffering,
disability, and death of children from medically treatable
or curable illnesses.
The
Report concludes that there is no humane alternative but
for HHS to require repeal of all state religious exemptions
to medical care and immunizations for children.
Table
of Contents
- HHS Policy on State Religious
Exemptions
- HHS Policy Jeopardizes the Lives
of Children
HHS
Policy on Transferring Responsibility for Providing Medical
Care From Parents to the Reporting System, Coupled With
the Reporting System's Inherent Difficulty in Detecting
Medical Neglect, Flagrantly Jeopardizes the Lives of Children
- Civil
Exemptions Undermine Parental Legal Responsibility
Despite
Denials by HHS, Civil Exemptions Undermine Parental Legal
Responsibility to Provide Care
- HHS's
Current Attempts to Clarify Are Limited and Problematic
HHS's
Current Attempts to Clarify the Impact of the Exemptions
on State Reporting Systems are Meeting With Only Limited
and Problematic Results and May Be Intrinsically Incapable
of Success
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Conclusion
Appendix:
Cases
of Childhood Deaths Due to Parental Religious Objection
to Necessary Medical Care
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