Parental Rights
Update: Amish Daughter Healthy Despite Health Care “Experts”
I visited the home of Andy and Anna Hershberger to deliver the good news that the Medina County Probate Court had at long last formally terminated the guardianship it had created over their now 12-year-old daughter, Sarah.
A government…
Victory for Parental Rights: State Agrees to End Stand-Off with Amish Family over Forced Health Care
Official who had sought to take family's daughter from home and force chemotherapy on her, despite parent's earnest objections and Health Care Freedom Amendment, resigns as guardian
Family will continue to pursue alternative treatment
Columbus,…
State’s Forced Chemotherapy on Amish Child Violates Parental Rights, Health Care Freedom Amendment
State sues to take Amish family's daughter and force chemo on her after chemo nearly kills her and family chooses different treatment option
amishColumbus, OH - The 1851 Center for Constitutional Law today began representation of Andy and Anna Hershberger, parents of Sarah Hershberger, a ten year old Amish girl upon whom the State of Ohio, through Akron Children's Hospital, seeks to force an unnecessary and potentially-deadly form of chemotherapy.