21 December 2006

What would you say to Leah-Beth Richards?

She is an eight year old Welsh girl who has been battling a rare form of cancer in her kidneys since she was two. She has now told her parents, who support her wishes, that she doesn't wish to have any more treatment.

I hope this turns out for the best and that there needn't be a protracted court battle over this. I am sure that there are those, especially in America, who believe that she should be compelled to have treatment (unless she hasn't got insurance of course).

I think that this is one of the reasons I am an avowed atheist. I refuse to allow myself to believe in any superior, let alone omnipotent, being that could allow, or worse yet, cause, this to happen to a child.

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