Religious Dogma that Kills Kids

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Freedom From Religion Foundation

Religion, Religion & Spirituality

4.6 • 578 Ratings

🗓️ 31 March 2007

⏱️ 51 minutes

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Summary

Rita Swan, founder of Children's Healthcare Is a Legal Duty, grants a powerful interview about losing a baby to Christian Science anti-medicine tenets, and her subsequent activism to repeal religious exemptions in laws governing healthcare for children. Dan Barker's Pagan Pulpit addresses the biblical defamation of atheists as "fools." Song: "Sunday Morning Blues." Freethinkers Almanac looks at eminent freethinkers born in late March. (MP3, 51 min, 23 MB)

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0:56.3	The Freedom from Religion Foundation is a non-faith-based initiative. Today we're very pleased
1:02.3	that we'll be talking with Rita Swan, founder of child, which stands for children's health care
1:08.0	is illegal duty, headquartered out of Iowa. Rita will be talking
1:12.0	about the tragic loss of her own baby, whom she turned over to the care of Christian science
1:16.6	practitioners, and how that tragedy turned her into an activist, fighting for religious exemptions,
1:23.1	to repeal religious exemptions which are government grants parents, and even today, children die from curable ailments.
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