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Articles
and links about religion-motivated child neglect & abuse
Informative
Links
Children's
Healthcare Is A Legal Duty Inc.
An agency fighting religion-related medical neglect and
abuse of children; web site contains information and links.
Religious
liberty legislation
as published on the Marci Hamilton web site
Caroline
Fraser's discussion forum. Join the conversation
about Christian Science, ask questions, or find out what
others have to say.
Court
Opinion: COMMONWEALTH v. David R. TWITCHELL
Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts, Suffolk 416 Mass.
114, 617 N.E.2d 609 (1993) [p. 115] WILKINS, Justice.
American
Professional Society on the Abuse of Children Statement
RE: Religious Liberty Protection Act of 1999
as published on the Marci Hamilton web site
Faith
healing -
from Apologetics Research Resources on Religious Cults,
Sects, Movements, Doctrines, Etc. Apologetics Index (apologeticsindex.org,
apologeticsindex.com, and countercult.com) provides research
resources on religious cults, sects, new religious movements,
alternative religions, apologetics-, anticult-, and countercult
organizations, doctrines, religious practices and world
views.
Religious
groups that reject medical treatment in favor of prayer:
The battle between medically needed treatment and freedom
of religion.
At www.religioustolerance.org
Faith
Healing: Child Abuse, Torture and Homicide
By David Kostinchuk
People United for Religious Freedom web site
Christian
Way a ministry of former-Christian Scientists.
Healing
Through Christian Science
The First Church of Christ, Scientist, answers some common
questions on its official web site.
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Articles
& Publications
Science
and Health with Key to the Scriptures
By Mary Baker Eddy
Internet Edition of the Christian Science textbook, published
by Christian Science Endtime Center.
Christian
Science Healing
Article on the Christian Science Endtime Center web site
Blair
couple's faith healing appeal denied
Tuesday, May 01, 2001
By Tom Gibb, Post-Gazette Staff Writer
Owens
signs faith-healing bill
By Julia C. Martinez
Denver Post Capitol Bureau
Tuesday, April 17, 2001
Freedom
of Religion or State-Sanctioned Child Abuse? Rising death
toll fuels debate over parents who choose prayer over medical
treatment on behalf of their children
Time Magazine/February 21, 2001 By Jessica Reaves
Prayed-over
girl died of untreated diabetes
Denver Post Western Slope Bureau/February 8, 2001
By Nancy Lofholm
Protecting
Faith Versus Protecting Futures Religious Freedom and Parental
Rights in Medical Decision Making for Children
LYNN PASQUERELLA
The PSC Report Online, Spring 2000
University of Rhode Island
Religious
Liberty Protection Act: Possible Danger to Children
American Academy of Pediatrics, Press release September
9, 1999
Religious
Conduct Crosses the Line
by Marci Hamilton.
Atlanta Journal-Constitution, Sept. 7, 1999
Faith
and Medicare Funding Payments to Christian Science Nursing
Centers Under Attack
Washington Post, March 22, 1999
By Avram Goldstein
It's
freedom vs. responsibility: Religious beliefs go up against
parental obligations when it comes to a child in need of
medical help.
By JEAN HELLER
St. Petersburg Times, October 1, 1998
Child
Fatalities From Religion-motivated Medical Neglect
Pediatrics Vol. 101 No. 4, April 1998
By Seth M. Asser and Rita Swan
God's
Perfect Child: Living and Dying in the Christian Science
Church (August 1999) Metropolitan Books.
The official web site of Caroline Fraser's book.
Fraser examines the strange life and psychology of Mary
Baker Eddy, takes us into the closed world of Eddy's followers,
reveals just how Scientists have managed to gain extraordinary
legal and congressional sanction, and tracks the faith's
enormous influence.
Suffering
and the Christian Science Church
The Atlantic Monthly, April 1995.
By Caroline Fraser.
"The unwillingness of many Christian Science parents
to seek help from physicians for their critically ill children
has led to many painful and unnecessary deaths and, increasingly,
to legal actions that have become burdensome to the Church
and its members."
Christian
Science: A Critique of the Science of Metaphysical Healing
Rev. Bryan Findlayson MClDip(Hons)
Lectionary Studies, Pumpkin Cottage Ministry Services web
site
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