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Originally Posted by MindieRose

I would dare say that more deaths have occured (in this country) and more children have suffered more than they should from side effects, and more children have been hurt by prescription and over the counter drugs. The FDA and Big Pharma has more power than most people know, and things get swept under the rug all the time. Look how many kids have died from cough medicine alone! IMO thats like saying that Airplanes should be banned because some people have died while flying, when more people die in car accidents every day.
I think it's sad that these parents are mourning and people are speculating whether they could have done more to save him. I think that's sick. If it were a blatent neglect where the parents were crack heads and left a kid out in the snow to freeze to death I could understand, but these were loving parents that were doing what was in the best interest for their child. I really don't care about any doctor that was interviewed saying that it could have been prevented and to never stop meds, they get perks from pharmacutical companies to push their drugs. I also don't care what some website says. I can find websites that say that "experts say" that you will get cancer from cheese, or water, or leaf lettuce or that so and so is the next messiah.
I do believe that the Scientology religion is a joke, but I don't think that these parents were unfit for what they did.

Well I'm certainly sorry that you think I'm sick but it seems pretty obvious based on past interviews by Kelly Preston, people who had personal contact with this poor child and the ultimate outcome that they were in all likelyhood not doing what was in the best interest for their child. Not treating your children for illnesses whether admitted ones (grand mal seizures) or ones you're in denial about because your religion tells you it doesn't exist (autism) is blatant neglect. It has no baring on this case if you care what general medical consensus is or not. If they had continued to try other medications to treat his seizures, per standard medical protocol, he very well could be alive today. If they had faced the reality that he had some sort of psychological disorder be it autism or something else he would have had a chance to be a functional, happy teenager instead of a mute teenager who was unable to be taken out in public. Instead they opted to treat him with purification rituals prescribed by a science fiction writer with no medical training involving dangerously high levels of vitamins known to cause liver damage. I do feel for them as I would any parent experiencing this kind of horror and I have no doubt that they loved him very much and are suffering a great deal but people in this religion are brainwashed and there are other children involved in this religion that need some consideration as well. The children have no say and they deserve to be protected.