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Dannemann even suggests Matthew Swan might not have been cured by medicine.

Her organization is particularly leery of some routine childhood vaccinations, saying more children have been harmed by those than by prayer healings.It's true, concerns about the potential dangers of some vaccinations have never been satisfactorily refuted.

But HF 368 says nothing about vaccinations.

On the other hand, Swan points to vaccinations as evidence of the growing influence of parents' religious practices on their children's health care.

She notes that more than 2,000 Iowa schoolchildren had religious exemptions from immunizations in 2004-05, a 50 percent increase over six years.Anyway, there are other forums for taking up the issue of potentially harmful vaccines or medications, such as the FDA.Had her proposed law been in effect in Michigan when Matthew died, Swan acknowledges she and her husband could have been prosecuted.

But she says if she had known the law required her to seek medical treatment for her son, she would have done so.And though it might seem vindictive punishing grieving parents, she says, "Love and good intentions are not all that it requires to be a parent.

We have a duty to act ...

because children are helpless."Most of the 60 prosecutions in such cases since 1982 have ended in convictions, Swan says, but most sentences were only probation.There's always t...

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