My Son Never Turned 7. Because of Choices in Washington, Others Won’t Either.

Ms. Habboo is a nonprofit executive and co-founder of the Rakan Stormer Research Fund at Children’s National Hospital in Washington, D.C.

My son Rakan was 5 years old when I first said the word “cancer” to a doctor. They looked at me the way doctors sometimes look at mothers, as if I were afraid of my shadow. It was allergies, they said. Gas. The ordinary explanations for an ordinary child. But I knew his energy was off. I........

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