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Originally Posted by afc wimbledon
Yes you can take away their right to choose, we do it all the time if they abuse their kids, think it's ok to pimp them out or beat on them or leave them alone for a few days with a box of Cheerios.
If an adult wants to refuse treatment so be it, I agree they have the right, but when a parent decides to let their kid die, whether it's by beating and starving them to death or refusing chemo, we have every right to intervene. These parents killed their kid, that they loved her while killing her is utterly irrelevant.
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So where do you draw the line? That's the problem here, as I see it.
In this particular case, the kid should have had treatment (according to our limited information), but how do you pick and choose which kids should be forced and which shouldn't be? These decisions need to be made on the spot, not with the benefit of hindsight.