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Article: Faith healers fight change in law
- Article from:
- The Gazette
- Article date:
- February 14, 2001
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DENVER - LaVeda Frasier fears proposed changes to Colorado's
child-abuse law would criminalize her practice of relying on prayer -
instead of medicine - to heal her five children when they are sick.
Frazier, a Colorado Springs resident, joined fellow members of
the Christian Science Church on Tuesday testifying against House Bill
1286, which would allow district attorneys to pursue child-abuse
charges against faith healers whose practices result in the serious
injury or death of a child.
The Christian Science Church is one of 12 religious organizations
in Colorado whose members use prayer and other spiritual practices
instead of medicine to treat illness.
"If the law does go through, who ...