Results: Faith Healing and Minor Children
A PA couple serving probation for the 2009 death of their toddler after they turned to prayer faces new charges. Recently, their 8 month old son developed breathing problems. Rather than seek medical treatment the couple again turned to their faith to heal their child. The boy died last week.
1.
1.
Have you heard of this case? Yes
27%
•
363 votes
No
73%
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984 votes
2.
2.
Do you believe in faith healing, or healing by prayer? Yes
21%
•
286 votes
No
46%
•
616 votes
Undecided
23%
•
304 votes
Not Applicable
10%
•
141 votes
3.
3.
Do you feel that parents should have the right choose faith over traditional medicine as part of religious freedom? Yes
17%
•
233 votes
No
51%
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690 votes
Undecided
31%
•
424 votes
4.
4.
Should parents be punished when failure to seek medical attention causes injury or death of a minor child? Yes
60%
•
811 votes
No
14%
•
182 votes
Undecided
26%
•
354 votes
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