“We’re not blaming God for this,” said 35-year-old Kristina. “Yes, it hurts, of course, it hurts. But God has chosen Ethan for a reason. God is doing something, and we're gonna glorify his name regardless.

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Doctors suggested Ethan’s parents could take him to Greenville Memorial Hospital, a larger facility with more specialists. Because their son was in so much distress, his parents decided to take him home and keep a close eye on him. “If all they're doing is antibiotics, maybe he'll be more comfortable at home, and we don't have to put him through this,” his mom said

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Less than 48 hours later, though, on Jan. 30, Ethan’s condition deteriorated to the point where he had “no movement at all,” his mom said. “It felt like his body was slowly losing all mobility,” she recalled. Kristina rushed Ethan to see the local doctor, who took one look at him and told the mom to get him to Greenville Memorial Hospital, about a 36-mile drive, right away.

Fuck every single unfortunate atom that make up these inbred fucking monsters. 'God' gave them enough signs to make election campaigners jealous and they ignored every fucking one. They should be in prison for child endangerment at best.

Yeah, thank God he's only brain damaged, he might have had autism. ಠ_ಠ

I hate everything about this. these dumb fucking people making these dumb fucking choices and only cause problems for a child who had no say in the matter.

this kid doesn't even get a chance at life because his idiot "caregivers" decided that he was better off

That mom needs to get slapped with charges and rot in jail, but we all know she'll just toss up a GoFund me and hit the nutty grifter circuit.

When Ethan contracted the measles around January 20, his parents hoped he would shake it off and “bounce back” like his brothers, aged 2 and 4, did when they came down with it a week or so prior. Ethan was not so lucky.

Jesus fuck he wasn't the only one...

You let your kid walk to the store and back by themselves? Arrest them and take their kids away.

You refused to let them have life saving treatment? Oh okay you have our sympathy?

These are the morals of the right.

The words they failed to use are "Child neglect" or "Child abuse".

You should go to jail for abusing your kid over a conspiracy theory.

“And we wouldn't change it any other way,” the mom continued. “If I knew this could be the outcome, I still wouldn't have given my son the vaccine.”

That's what we call child neglect

I have a relative who has refused to get her three children vaccinated because she's convinced that's what causes autism. Guess what? Her youngest child was just diagnosed with autism anyway. So now she says it's because she (the mom) was vaccinated as a child, and somehow that made her son autistic. There's no reasoning with unreasonable people.

She's not a fit parent. Full fucking stop.

Why the fuck are vaccines a political thing? FFS, they aren't a new thing and have a long-proven track record of being effective at preventing debilitating and deadly diseases.

why would she change her decision? her kid is suffering, not her. that's just an accessory, not something she's actually attached to.

Psychologically makes sense. If her child is almost dead due to her decision, then she can either keep fooling herself it was a good decision, or she can acknowledge it's her fault her child is almost dead.

It's much easier to keep insisting it was a good decision, because the alternative is extremely uncomfortable.

Take her other kids away from her.

Less vaccines = more brain damage = more Republican voters.

We will have lead back in gas by 2028.

“We’re not blaming God for this,” said 35-year-old Kristina

Of course not, its not gods fault, its hers and her husbands.

They should lose custody of their kids. This is callous disregard for their safety and reckless endangerment. This should be treated no differently than addicts that leave drugs around for their kids to get into.

and if she so vehemently anti-medicine and anti-science, why the fuck are they in a hospital.

This is straight-up child abuse.

Well that's cuz you're a fucking idiot

The anger I have right now for this fucking child abuser. FUCK. This mom should be the one fucking dying, not this kid. He doesn't deserve this.

Its really no wonder conservatives seem so apt to rape children because they view children as possessions and not people. Just objects they can use and throw away at a whim. This child is dying because their parents wanted them to.

She should be jailed for child abuse and the kid taken away (CPS).

Sorry little dude. But fuck her.

I bet he probably would have wanted it

what the fuck happened to my country and the world!

It's so strange to openly admit you don't want to be the best parent you can possibly be. 🤷🏻‍♂️

Smallpox, Malaria, then Religion.