They are not potential murderers, they are worried sick desperate parents.
Mate, firstly, the depart smiley comment, don't be such a prick!!
Secondly, you seem to be convinced in your own argument here, your not listening to anyone else. This is nothing to do with religion, they happen to be jw's, that's all.
Not every treatment is approved or tested in every country, there is no reason why a treatment that has been approved elsewhere but not given the time here won't work.
As I said earlier, my son is on an epilepsy medicine that contains it well. This tablet is not available in the states as they have other tablets they believe work better. Friends of mine who have kids with epilepsy in the states have tried everything and nothing works, they are desperate for the tablets we have here. They even drive to Canada to obtain the medicine illegally.
There are always 2 sides to a story, please try and realise that.
From what I've read there kid has a massive brain tumour which has been cut out. The doctors are unwilling to try any new treatments and they would like to try them. They feel like there banging there heads against a wall,and getting nowhere.
They are not potential murderers, they are worried sick desperate parents.
If a medical expert tells me that taking a certain action is very likely to kill another person and I take that action it makes me a murderer (or attempted) regardless of my intentions.This I suspect is the real story/motivator here. It's all too easy to judge the parents' actions here as those of religious cranks simply on account of them being JWs. Lazy reporting and generalisations, where the full facts have not yet been established. If you put yourself in the shoes of the parents, having had to live through every second of their young son's near intolerable existence, then I think Stufat's assessment is a far more reasonable hypothesis of their likely state of mind and intentions.
That's not to necessarily say that the parents' actions weren't reckless, but labelling them murderers (or attempted murderers), is rather extreme to say the least.
If a medical expert tells me that taking a certain action is very likely to kill another person and I take that action it makes me a murderer (or attempted) regardless of my intentions.
I hope that at the very least our justice system is able to take their children away and prevent any further risk/damage being caused.
The treatment they claim to be seeking (remember, we only have their word and that of the JW PR branch on that front) has been suggested by an expert to be no more effective in this scenario. The only person who has contradicted that opinion is the man taking excessive risk with his own child's life.Tripe. Like Roy said, we don't know the full facts. What if another expert has provided a differing opinion in Spain? We just don't have enough data to make a decision that they have attempted a murder on their child for starters. An example of why jumping to conclusions is a very dangerous thing to do.
Tripe. Like Roy said, we don't know the full facts. What if another expert has provided a differing opinion in Spain? We just don't have enough data to make a decision that they have attempted a murder on their child for starters. An example of why jumping to conclusions is a very dangerous thing to do.
There was a great guy on 5 live this morning, a expert in child cancers he was saying that this happens all the time. Basically it was a break down in relationship between the medical team and the parents and in these cases usually a new medical team takes over but in this case it went beyond repair. He was saying that from the evidence he sees is that they did not endanger the child at all and often children in worse condition that that child's will and do get taken out for whole weekends even with feeding devices.
The media blew this up to a giant **** storm which the public seems to have bought into.
This sounds about right, I think some people want to blame religion for these peoples actions, my point isthat it wasn't religion, they did it (rightly or wrongly) with the best interests of their child at heart but not for Gods sake.
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Ashya King's parents to face no action, says CPS
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-29036154
"The parents of Ashya King will face no further action and should be reunited with their son, say prosecutors.
The Crown Prosecution Service has withdrawn a European arrest warrant enabling Spanish police to detain Brett and Naghemeh King.
Prime Minister David Cameron welcomed the moves to reunite the family.
Mr and Mrs King were arrested in Spain on Saturday, after taking their son out of hospital in Southampton last week against medical advice.
A CPS spokesman said it had "urgently reviewed the case" and found "insufficient evidence for a realistic prospect of conviction for any criminal offence".
"We have therefore decided to stop the criminal proceedings," he added.
In a tweet, Mr Cameron said: "I welcome the prosecution against #AshyaKing's parents being dropped"
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The fact their aim is to get their son into the care of other medical professionals, where he can receive a treatment that other medical professionals say can work for the boy, and which should cause fewer side effects, would suggest they hold doctors in perfectly high esteem.You don't think the fact that they belong to a religion that regularly lets their members die rather than accept help from medical professionals has a bearing on the esteem in which they hold doctors? They're told that Santa knows better than doctors, so of course they won't listen when professional advice is given to them.
this.Lock this **** up. It's embarrassing.