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I do not know anything about this case, other that what you have provided. However, denying a sick child medicine is child abuse and in this case could be manslaughter.

I would not watch Nancy Grace at gunpoint, so Grace's opinion is irrelevant. The fact of the matter is there are SOME looneys who eschew modern medicine and science. They say if you pray enough, God will heal you. When person x,y, and Z die, they are called by their fellow parishioners unworthy, or not pious enough.

If an adult chooses to join a cult that denounces modern medicine, that is their business. But when someone forces another living being to die by lack of treatment, that is a crime.

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Molon Labe!

The parents should be free to make choices for themselves, no matter how detrimental to themselves, but in this case their liberty extended to the tip of their dead daughter's nose.

Their actions put their daughter in harms way, so much so that she died from their deprivation of needed medical care. They have no more right to do that than to shove her out of an airplane without a parachute because they believe angels will catch her.

I think a jury of their peers will agree this is some form of manslaughter or negligent homicide. They may have lacked the intent to harm or kill her, but a reasonable person would have known better. And people, reasonable or otherwise, need to know they will be prosecuted for this type of thing.

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- "Make love not war? Real men can do both!"

to child neglect at a minimum. If it were me, I'd go for child abuse.
You do not keep children from medical care. Period.
I am very strong in my faith and I believe very much in the power of prayer. There is absolutely no way I would let my child suffer and die like that though. God gives us these children as precious gifts. He entrusts us to care for them to the very best of our ability. These parents failed in that duty.

Well, while you are more than likely right, I'm not sure I would want to be right. I guess there is a provsion in the WI laws that make this type of action "legal".

IMO, it just goes to show there are wackos in every group. Prayer...sure.......I wonder, has it been prayer all along that provides food and nurishment to the child and the parents?...No, I think not. No, I guess the parents see some limits of prayer.

If not jail, definately looney bin...and I'm tempted to say sterilization, but that might raise to much ire.

" Got to love the Lord for making things like that."
Morally Compromised

Those of us who are pro-life argue that the unborn child has rights that prohibit the mother (and/or father) from choosing actions that will take his or her life.

If the mother (parents) of an unborn child can't take actions in accordance with their beliefs that will result in the child's death, how can you possibly argue that the parents of a born child (11 years old, in this case) have the right to take actions (or in this case inaction) that will take their child's life.

Let's be consistent here: the child has rights too, and we have long had laws that allow the community (via the state) to intervene when the parents takes actions that constitute abuse and/or a threat to the child's life.

And Rightly So!

The First Amendment does allow the free exercise of religion, yes. But we set limits on that.

Who decides which kinds of medical care trump the Constitution? How much power do we grant unelected, unaccountable doctors who may have numerous agendas of their own to turn children into the property of the state?

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on most matters the state should bow to the will of the parents, but in life and death issues the state has an overwhelming cause for action to see that the child has medical care pursuant to keeping the child (who is a citizen with rights) alive.

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Kyle

This is what happens when individuals try to interpret for themselves the Word of God. Jesus used things of the natural world to cure, as when he mixed his own saliva with dirt to form a mud which he then used to cure a blind man.

Religion is always about a relationship with God. He reaches out to us, we respond to his call. But, these parents unfortunately practiced what many Christians do, namely, thinking that they should isolate themselves from the things of this world. We must trust God in his goodness and believe that in everything there is a reason and purpose. It is the user who perverts the purpose. Legitimate medical practices should never be shunned, yet no medical practice or cure succeeds unless it is the will of God.

As to the legal implications of this, I have no idea. As a parent, I resent the intrusion of the government into the raising of my children yet, I do believe that children should be protected from physical harm at all costs.

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God has placed obvious limits on man's intelligence but none what-so-ever on his stupidity.