Healthcare provision seeks to embrace prayer treatments - - reviewed by Jo Bobenhouse Smith

Healthcare provision seeks to embrace prayer treatments -

Los Angeles Times by Tom Hamburger, Kim Geiger | Nov. 3, 2009 (News)

A little-noticed measure would put Christian Science healing sessions on the same footing as clinical medicine. Critics say it violates the separation of church and state. Full Story »

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by Jo Bobenhouse Smith - Nov. 14, 2009

This is a clean, straight forward presentation of facts surrounding this healthcare provision.

Michael McConnell, who heads the Stanford University Constitutional Law Center, said that “as long as patients are the ones who choose, and religious choices are given no legal preference or advantage, the proposals would appear to be consistent with constitutional standards.”

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