Rights Vs. Beliefs

Rights Vs. Beliefs

In my view, the discussion between the methods of the religion and the medical science around the health still continue. One reason is that the power of the religion is smaller than in other centuries, and in nowadays the population is asking for others treatment to combat the illnesses. Whereas, there are people that still believe that god is the responsible for the destiny and put ahead the health their beliefs; this kind of situations is more dangerous for the kids, because, they are not autonomy for take care by their selves and need their parents for grow up healthy.

In this way, this essay is principally a presentation about the implications of the religion for the child that life surrounded fanatic people. First I want to show, that in the Colombian´s politic constitution, the most important right is “The life”; in this way the article number 11 arguments that who attend against this right will be judge and penalize.  

 On the other hand, our politic constitution also talks about the freedom for development the personality and in the article number 19 said:

“The government has to guarantee to all the people that can be free to express the opinion about the religion, anyone have the right to profess his/her beliefs in a group or individually”.

To put in another way, in the justice system, “The life” is the most important right, and the children have the right to grow up healthy, but the people can believe in whatever they want. In this way the government has a big responsibility with the kids and the law of the country has to be more special with this group, and the governors have to design politics that protect their lives, but the parents has the biggest responsibility: take care the life of their sons and daughters, for this reason, they have to use all the tools for make kid´s life better.

When the parents put their beliefs ahead the health of their children, the results can be a total disaster, for example, the case of Amy Hermanson, a sweet girl that only had 8 years old, which died for a simple medical condition –Diabetes-, because she didn´t received medical attention. In this case, I have only one conclusion, the parents had to carry the girl to the hospital for try with others treatments, but, they preferred follow their beliefs and in this case, they are guilty for the dead of the girl, this attitude was negligent and selfish. The girl had the right to grow up with health, and in her case, she didn´t had autonomy, for this, their parents had the responsibility to take care of her.

 In others words, Amy´s parents are from a community that believe in the Christian´s Science, and they have alternatives treatments for heal the diseases, when Amy got sick, they decided to try to heal the child with prayer and two days after Amy died. For me, the Christian´s science doesn´t exist, and the Shepherds ought to be more careful with their suggestions in this kind of situations, they had better make recommendations about visit a doctor and make all the things possible for take care Amy.

Additionally, the church can´t take the place of the doctors and this institution ought to be penalty for hide and be accomplice in this crime.

On the other hand, in the court the law has to know that also the parents have the right to express their beliefs and follow this, maybe, they didn´t used the social security system, and, didn´t knew the size of the illness of their daughter. This situation happens all the time, because, the parents underestimate the words of their kids, and church members acknowledge that theirs solutions sometimes fail, as the medical science.  

In conclusion, I think that the most important thing in this case, is the children´s right to grow up with health and the law ought to be radical and impose a penalty to the church and the parents of the girl for violate the constitutional right of the life. In second place, the beliefs have to be respect, but the law ought to be careful with the fanatics and protect the rights of the kids that live with this kind of people.  

Writing process 

Brainstorming:

One of the most important people´s rights is the health; I think that the church is not a hospital and the shepherds are not doctors, they cannot said what is good or bad about the health of anybody, and one of the most important topics, is that the religion is not a science.

I chose my hypotheses very fast, for me, the law ought to be radical with this kind of murders, because, the parents are absolutely guilty, they had better go to a doctor, and try others treatments for keep on save their daughter’s life.  In other hand, she was minor, for this reason the parents and the government have the responsibility under her life, the law ought to protect the right of the kid to grow up with health and the parents ought to be accused for not respect this right.