Are You Sick? Here Comes The Judge!

When you are placed in a situation where you must make a decision that will literally affect your life, and maybe hasten your death, do you really want a judge to decide what's best for you?

A judge has ruled that a 16-year-old boy fighting to use alternative treatment for his cancer must report to a hospital by Tuesday and accept treatment that doctors deem necessary, the family's attorney said.

The judge on Friday also found Starchild Abraham Cherrix's parents were neglectful for allowing him to pursue alternative treatment of a sugar-free, organic diet and herbal supplements supervised by a clinic in Mexico, lawyer John Stepanovich said.

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"I want to caution all parents of Virginia: Look out, because Social Services may be pounding on your door next when they disagree with the decision you've made about the health care of your child," Stepanovich said.

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After three months of chemotherapy last year made him nauseated and weak, Abraham rejected doctors' recommendations to go through a second round when he learned early this year that his Hodgkin's disease, a cancer of the lymph nodes, was active again.

Is a judge qualified to decide which treatment is best?

Chemotherapy made him nauseated and weak, and most of all, DID NOT WORK. Shouldn't he be allowed to seek treatment from any means necessary? Shouldn't he have the right to try and save his own life?

Seriously.

When you have a terminal illness, your best defense is hope, not some robe wearing bench squatter with nothing better to do than mess with you and your family.

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