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Originally Posted by Darmund
I fully agree that religious nutjobbery is no excuse for letting a family member die. It raises an interesting question though... who pays for it? If the parents object to, for example, life-saving chemotherapy for a kid on religious grounds, and we as a society say the kid has to have it anyway, do we also have the right to say the parent has to pay for it too? Or does society foot the bill? If so, that opens another huge can of worms: what about people who will claim religious nutjobbery knowing that means they won't have to pay the bills?
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There are certainly laws here which allow for money spent on essentials for minors to be recovered from the parents. I'd be surprised if there aren't similar laws in the US. I don't see it as fundamentally different from who picks up the cost when children are removed from parental care.