I’m not buying your “what if” argument.
What if the son of these parents died because they didn’t seek medical care for him and what if the 15 month old granddaughter of these two died because their daughter and son-in-law refused medical care for her.
In the above two what ifs that’s exactly what happened and those children are dead.
The law in Oregon was changed in 1999 because of this church and the number of their children in a graveyard.
There will always be people who will neglect their children.
No law can fix that.
Why does “big medicine” and the government _always_ want to either:
A) DENY care
or
B) FORCE care
(answer my own question: it’s the former when there is no money to take and the latter when there is)
People have a right to refuse care, contrary to the current politically correct tendency to think that everybody needs to just “let go” and let “modern medicine” “treat them” whenever it wants to and however it wants to without questioning the noble authority of the benevolent masters in government and medicine.
Americans have been taught to think that they need to tell other people what to do because we are such wonderful world citizens; we are _so_ enlightened, hence, we are always right. It’s like the Haiti adoptions; how high-and-mighty are we to assume that we are justified in plucking children out of another country to give them such a wonderful life here ? What right does one have to take orphans from another country ? What if someone did this in the U.S., that is, take children out of an orphanage ? Would not our courts have something to say about that ? Where is the months-long legal procedure in Haiti on these adoptions ? Oh, it’s an “emergency” we just need to get these oh so cute little orphans out of their country so for the next 20 years we can have all our neighbors see us parade around town with those cute little orphans that we so valiantly adopted. They need love, and these modern Americans do love to love their kids.
It may make one look good to be so concerned about our neighbors that we start forcing things on them for their own good, but how will we feel when years from now, as we age, some helpful young neighbor is forcing - I mean helping - us. Time to take your medicine...