Thanks to Nixon’s legacy in Idaho, the rule remains that a person who believes that prayer heals is not subject to the Child Abuse Prevention Act if he leaves his child without medical care. As a result, in one of the religious communities of the state the child mortality rate is 10 times higher than in the state as a whole. And, say, a seriously ill girl, who is now in need of a heart and lung transplant, cannot file a lawsuit against her parents, who prayed over her as a child, instead of taking her for a much safer operation.