They are not second class citizens. They need and deserve equal treatment. Please go back to doing the right thing. Please, while there is still time. Boulden Griffith, Oregon Coordinator, Children's Health Care Is a Legal Duty 2893 SE Lonny Ct.
Religious exemptions make prayer a legal substitute for the medical care needed by a sick child.
Parents should not be allowed to deprive a sick child of all the vast resources of twentieth-century medicine. The only health care that the state should recognize for seriously ill children is state- licensed, secular health care. The state has a moral and legal obligation to safeguard the lives of minor children. It should not allow unlicensed methods to substitute for medical care of seriously ill children. As an adult whose childhood was spent in the home of parents who subscribed to such beliefs, I feel it important to speak out on behalf of those children who, for a variety of reasons, are unable to do so themselves.