The question is whether the state has the right to step in front of the parents to make what is properly a parental decision for the child.
This is government-is-your-parent Big Brother Marxism at its core.
Except in case of a public health emergency that threatens the security of the state itself, all medical decisions for children are the responsibility of the parents.
A government with the resources to put something like this on its action agenda is a government that has too many resources and is either taxing too much, borrowing too much, or both.
The executive order written by Governor Perry stated:
Parents’ Rights. The Department of State Health Services will, in order to protect the right of parents to be the final authority on their children’s health care, modify the current process in order to allow parents to submit a request for a conscientious objection affidavit form via the Internet while maintaining privacy safeguards under current law.