Christian Science View on Med.

The First Church of Christ, Scientist was founded by Mary Baker Eddy over a century ago in Boston, Massachusetts. Her discovery of the idea of the science of Christianity came shortly after a fall on the ice. After consulting doctors and receiving grim prognoses, she turned to her Bible and read about the healing powers of Jesus Christ. According to history, she was instantly healed; thus began the Christian Science movement. The church embraces and upholds more than just the doctrine of faith healing, but it is this facet of the church that has, within the past decade, come under the intense scrutiny of the medical community. The right to forego or deny medical treatment for oneself or one’s child is protected under religious freedom laws; the controversy begins when children die because of these laws, through the withholding of medical treatment. The view of the church is that they are protected by religious freedom; the view of the medical community is that denying medical care to children constitutes abuse.

Today, the Christian Scientist church is divided into two followings, one out of Boston, the First Church of Christ, Scientist, and one out of Denver, now called the

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