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CMV: There is no good enough reason to let parents refuse medical treatment for their children.

Get a second opinion, fine, but if an Md tells you your kid needs something and there’s no verified follow up made within a reasonable amount of time at that point it’s medical neglect and authorities should be required to step in.

My own parents refused to treat my adhd because of misinformation. We’ve got antivaxers and faith healers coming out the woodworks. I understand parents think they know what’s best but clearly that’s not always true. 

People feeling entitled to have this right over their offspring as if they’re property  is not healthy.

“Gubment can’t tell me how to raise my churn.”

You bet your ass it can and it should!

Edit: so I still think fundamentally that just because a parent says “I believe” that should be irrelevant to any medical care for their child. Freedom of speech/religion/belief be dammed I don’t give a fuck. However I have been shown that there’s a lot of nuance which is what I was hoping to learn about in the first place. 

The lack of universal healthcare is a massive barrier, and sometimes there are interesting cases that present complicated ethical issues.

I don’t think the antivax crowd deserves the consideration or to be equivocated with Terri Schavo case, we seem to be worried about overstepping parental rights in this arena which is dumb imo 

we also and there have CPS helping as someone said. This service is however underfunded and drowning.
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Some points for your consideration

1: At one point in time gay-conversion therapy was considered real science. 

2: In America activities like circumcision are considered the norm and were (for a while) recommended by doctors for genital health of boys. 

3: Forced medical procedures HAVE been used by the US government to sterilize minorities and native Americans.