{"id":2510,"date":"2011-02-23T09:00:00","date_gmt":"2011-02-23T09:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/news\/2011\/02\/oregon-bill-would-end-protecti.php"},"modified":"2011-02-23T09:00:00","modified_gmt":"2011-02-23T09:00:00","slug":"oregon-bill-would-end-protecti","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/news\/2011\/02\/oregon-bill-would-end-protecti","title":{"rendered":"Oregon Bill Would End Protections for Faith Healers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>PORTLAND, Ore. (RNS) Oregon prosecutors and lawmakers endorsed a bill Monday (Feb. 21) that would remove special legal protection for parents who treat seriously ill children with faith healing instead of providing medical treatment.<br \/>\nClackamas County District Attorney John Foote and others told the House Judiciary Committee that House Bill 2721 would help halt needless, avoidable child deaths.<br \/>\nThe bill is a response to the Followers of Christ, an Oregon City church with a history of children dying from treatable medical conditions. It would remove spiritual treatment as a defense against all homicide charges and subject parents to mandatory sentencing under Oregon&#8217;s Measure 11.<br \/>\nSupporters of the bill made two main points. It will eliminate exemptions that give one class of parents &#8212; those who exclusively practice faith healing &#8212; special rights. And it puts more pressure on the most extreme members of the Followers of Christ church to provide medical care for seriously ill children.<br \/>\nIn the past two years, Clackamas County prosecuted two couples for failing to provide medical care for dying children. Two other couples are awaiting trial, accused of criminal mistreatment and second-degree manslaughter.<br \/>\n<em>(Steve Mayes writes for <\/em>The Oregonian<em> in Portland, Ore.)<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>PORTLAND, Ore. (RNS) Oregon prosecutors and lawmakers endorsed a bill Monday (Feb. 21) that would remove special legal protection for parents who treat seriously ill children with faith healing instead of providing medical treatment. Clackamas County District Attorney John Foote and others told the House Judiciary Committee that House Bill 2721 would help halt needless,&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":264,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fbia_status":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[4,8,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2510","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-faith","category-news","category-rns"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v23.9 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Oregon Bill Would End Protections for Faith Healers<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/news\/2011\/02\/oregon-bill-would-end-protecti\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Oregon Bill Would End Protections for Faith Healers\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"PORTLAND, Ore. 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