Who decides what method of treatment the parents can use for their daughter?? The state? The Community?? The Medical establishment?? Do we abrogate the rights of the parents simply because we disagree with their chosen method of treatment??( i.e prayer and a belief in divine intervention)
Do not forget, it is not the parents who took their daughter's life. it was the disease. The parents error was in the method of treatment. A method they believed was the one that they hoped would work.
It didn't, and its truly a pity. But if we condone the seizure of our children because we as parents do not follow the accepted path in all things, when will they come for our kids because we choose to not have them take what we believe to be a risky inoculation??, Or choose to school them in what is believed to be a harmful home-school environment?? Or raise them in substandard house in which lead paint, or asbestos, or even (GASP!!) smokers lives.
We have a right, and a duty to do our best to raise and protect our children. From hazard, as well as from complacency, and over bearing government intrusion among other things. Would that we could protect them from all things. But, alas, parents are not perfect, and sometimes bad things happen, and (in retrospect) wrong choices are made.
I disagree. That's like tossing your toddler in front of a moving vehicle and then claiming innocence because it was the car, not your actions that killed the child.
Sorry, I'm not buying that gross and disgusting cop out.