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Legislative Action

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Victory in Tennessee 4/14/2016
Victory in Oregon
CHILD member helps stymie Christian Science bill in Massachusetts
Competing bills on religious exemptions both fail in Wisconsin
Maryland legislature rejects attempt to create religious exemptions
CAPTA reauthorized but not improved
Christian Science religious defense bill dies in Massachusetts
Christian Science lobbying in Wisconsin for homicide defense
Nebraska maintains metabolic screening law
Nebraska, the shining star
Nebraska rejects religious exemption again
Psychiatrist hopeful on Maine laws
Defeat in Iowa again
Maryland repeals another religious exemption
Utah regulates private boarding schools
Maine narrows exemption laws
Victory in Rhode Island
Other ’04 legislative work
New Mexico passes bio-terrorism bill without religious exemptions
CHILD wins some, loses some in Iowa legislative session
Texas and Arkansas expand immunization exemptions
CHILD gets improvements in Missouri’s version of Religious Freedom Restoration Act
Nebraska adopts best newborn screening in nation
Scientology seek exemption from newborn screening laws

Children’s Healthcare Is a Legal Duty (CHILD), Inc.

is no longer an active tax-exempt charity. There is, however, a new successor non-profit organization called CHILD USA operating out of the University of Pennsylvania. It was formed with the original CHILD’s encouragement and support and is dedicated to ending child abuse and neglect through evidence-based research resulting in enlightened law and public policy.

This original CHILD website, www.childrenshealthcare.org, continues however as an archive for CHILD’s many endeavors from 1983 to 2017 to protect children from harmful religious and cultural practices—especially faith-based medical neglect—through public education, research, legal action, and a limited amount of lobbying. A second webpage, designed to educate the public about the situation in Idaho, IdahoChildren.org , will also continue to be available online for an indefinite period. It is our intention and hope that both sites will be valuable resources for current and future advocates working to establish healthcare for all children as a legal duty.

We are deeply grateful to those who supported our child advocacy work during the past 34 years.

Rita and Douglas Swan, Co-founders