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"It is not a mild infection, it is not a mild virus; it is a severe illness. And they kept on telling me they wish they'd known beforehand how bad measles was, so that they could have protected their family," she said.

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[-] ieGod@lemmy.zip 19 points 2 months ago
[-] jmill@lemmy.zip 35 points 2 months ago

For the parents. I feel bad for the kids.

[-] zipkag@lemmy.world 7 points 2 months ago

Mormons believe that their children are pre-selected in the pre-earth life, so the children chose to come to that family in their theology.

[-] UltraGiGaGigantic@lemmy.ml 3 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

Ugh. Making kids is raping life into them. There is no consent involved.

[-] Drusas@fedia.io 1 points 2 months ago

I forgot about that part.

[-] ThomasWilliams@lemmy.world 1 points 2 months ago

That's what all Protestants believe.

[-] Fluke@feddit.uk 6 points 2 months ago

I have to agree here. Those bairns didn't ask to run the risk of lifelong complications like blindness, deafness, brain damage, loss of motor control of a body part, lung damage, immune system damage and a whole slew of others I needn't list to labour a point.

The parents should be no longer so, but condemning those kids to yet more abuse at the hands of the system strikes me as nothing short of sadistic.

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