Comments for sursumcorda.salemsattic.com/post/the-right-to-be-wrong

Comment #1212

2009-05-27T17:22:12Z

The insurance does have some odd clauses in it about not paying for things a court or employer asks you to do, unless they are deemed medically necessary by Highmark.

And also, vaccinations are only paid for if they are for the prevention of a disease. I am not quite sure what else a vaccination is for?

Comment #1211

2009-05-25T21:44:13Z

Yes, your community need not be geographically based.

Comment #1210

2009-05-25T14:55:17Z

Now that's a wrinkle I hadn't thought of. If you talk to local governments and schools around here, they'd say no—that the state is constantly ordering them to do things for which the state provides no money.

Comment #1209

2009-05-25T14:16:03Z

By the way, if Daniel has the same health insurance we do, he is no longer covered for this cancer treatment because it was ordered by a court. So then would the state pay for it, since the state ordered it?

Comment #1208

2009-05-25T14:14:27Z

By "generally supports" I hope you include the people who think I'm totally out of my mind but do have the right to make my own choices. It was only after Isaac's death that we found more people, near and far, who supported our homebirthing decision.

And by "chosen to live amongst" you don't necessarily mean the location of our house. I have no idea what our neighbors think of midwives, or much else for that matter.

Comment #1207

2009-05-25T12:55:50Z

Presumably you'd have already chosen to live amongst peers who share your values so that this would be a very rare need. For example, heather's community generally supports her choice to use a midwife rather than a hospital. Plus, you dont *have* to shun. It's just a better suggestion than asking the state to say "My way or jail".

Comment #1206

2009-05-25T04:52:41Z

I was thinking more along the lines of a parent with whom you are forced into contact - work colleague, member of the same church, mailman, you name it.

Additionally, I was thinking of how shunning plays out once there are more people out there that you shun than people you don't shun.

And then there's a new problem in our internet age: what if the people you want to shun are your facebook friends or comment on your blog or otherwise interact with you in ways you can't stop without inconveniencing everyone else?

Comment #1205

2009-05-23T13:27:17Z

Can't shun them? As in you're not in their neighborhood? Well then too bad for you.

Comment #1204

2009-05-23T12:38:02Z

What if you can't?

Comment #1203

2009-05-23T12:12:22Z

Parents should have absolute say as to what healthcare their children consume. If you dont like a parent's decision, shun them.

Comment #1202

2009-05-20T21:13:22Z

Another thing: The boy is not 3, but 13 years old. I wouldn't say that necessarily makes him wise—though there once were sea captains of his age winning battles—but IF, as has been ruled, girls at 13 are allowed to choose whether or not to use contraception and whether or not to have abortions, then boys at 13 should be allowed to choose whether or not to submit to chemotherapy.

Comment #1201

2009-05-20T14:27:18Z

Perhaps Arthur Caplan hasn't seen what happens when you have chemo treatments. (A certain cousin from CT used chemo as an example in response to my jest about "that which doesn't kill you makes you stronger", presumably in regards to his not wanting to eat vegetables because they might kill him).