Girl dies of stupid parents

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From the article:

Here's what I got:

A Hamilton oncologist testifying at a hearing into an indigenous child who has quit chemotherapy in favour of traditional medicine says in a similar case earlier this year, another First Nation girl stopped her chemo and has now suffered a relapse.

Makayla Sault's leukemia has come back, according to testimony by McMaster Children's Hospital's Vicky Breakey. Although Breakey didn't name the patient, it's clear she was referring to Makayla.

Notice that first they say it came back and then they say the doctor didn't name Makayla. I'd like to hear the quote from the doctor. Like I said before though, she didn't die from leukemia. She died from a stroke, possibly caused by her chemo therapy.

Here:

Dr. John Letterio, chief of pediatric hematology and oncology at University Hospitals Rainbow Babies & Children’s Hospital in Cleveland, said it was unlikely that chemotherapy drugs could have caused a stroke months after Makayla stopped treatment.

“The drugs we use, literally thousands of patients have had these,” said Letterio, who did not treat Makayla. “One of the chemotherapy agents we use has the risk for some heart problems [but] it’s so very, very rare.”

Letterio said the chance of complications would also be further reduced if Makayla was out of chemotherapy treatment for months.

However, Letterio said if Makayla did have active leukemia disease, there’s a chance cardiac complications could occur.

“Leukemia, in essence, goes everywhere the blood stream goes. Those cancer cells can accumulate,” said Letterio. “It could be a complication of her disease if it began to march along. It’s hard to tell.”

http://abcnews.go.com/Health/coroner-inv...d=28405122

And as we have seen earlier, Makayla had relapsed. Simply because Breakey didn't mention Mikayla by name, that doesn't mean she wasn't talking about her, any more than you and I discussing the first President of America means we aren't talking about George Washington.

You're trying to set an artificially-high standard of evidence in order to avoid the admission that this child's death was entirely unnecessary, and brought about by blind faith.

Tell us: would you allow your child to reject life-saving treatment that has been demonstrated to work 75% of the time, in favor of unsupported treatment administered by a quack?

I wouldn't. At eleven, my son was not competent to make that decision, and there is no belief system in this world that would cause me to forgo doing everything in my power to give him a long and prosperous life. And shame on any parent who would put their faith above their love.

Even your Apostle Paul has it right when he says "[...] and now these three remain: faith, hope and love. But the greatest of these is love."

Are these empty words, to you? They aren't to me, and I'm a goddamned atheist.