Medicine, religion collide in chemo refusal

The need of states to protect children who are suffering from life-threatening diseases is increasingly colliding with religious choices of parents, including one case where a child has died.

As a Wisconsin woman stood trial Wednesday for the death of her daughter, authorities nationwide were searching for a Minnesota mother who vanished with her cancer-stricken 13-year-old son, refusing chemotherapy that doctors say could save his life. The search had turned to Southern California, after authorities received a tip.


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