Article March 27, 1943 Issue

Reports of Christian Science Committees on Publication for Louisiana and Kansas

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Your Committee gave much time to the 1942 session of the state legislature. Approximately 1750 bills were introduced, and the titles of all these measures were given careful consideration by your Committee and Assistants. All bills affecting the rights of Christian Scientists were amended, left in committee, withdrawn, or defeated.

We were successful in securing an amendment to Act No. 3 of 1942 (Department of Institutions), which reads as follows: "Except as to compliance with the sanitary laws and all reasonable regulations relating to contagious and infectious diseases, any sane patient or sane inmate of any of the institutions under the Department of Institutions may decline any medical care or treatment offered or provided by such institution and provide other care for himself or herself at his or her own expense."

We were also successful in securing an amendment to Act No. 93 of 1942 (An Act to define the practice of Nursing) as follows: "This law shall not prohibit the practice of Christian Science or religious rules or ceremonies as a form of religious worship, devotion or healing; provided, That the person administering or making use of or assisting or prescribing such rely on faith and prayer alone, and do not prescribe or administer drugs or medicine, nor perform surgical or physical operations, nor assume the title of, or hold themselves out to be medical nurses."

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