Valerie
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His parents are choosing alternative treatment, and they're doing what they think is best just like a 13 year old girl deciding to kill her baby. But as someone who advocates what you do about government intervention into private medical issues about what people do with their own body as a means of defending abortion, you have no grounds on which to argue here. You don't get to pick and choose who gets to be treated fairly under the laws that you advocate, that's not how the game works.
I wouldn't 'choose' the option that they have personally.
After all, it's all about choice, isn't it? That's all that matters.
As I said, I disagree that there are no grounds for that argument and so does the court.
The 13 year old girl who becomes pregnant is not dying. I think the law should require that a parent or adult guardian should be informed and it is a private medical decision whether or not to abort the pregnancy, not the government.
This 13 year old boy is going to die from lack of treatment, so essentially his mother's choice is a walking abortion of his life. The private medical decision has become a public legal affair because a civilized society has an obligation to protect this already alive child from THAT choice.
You're right, only the life that is inside of her will be dying, so she's making the choice for someone else's life, not her own. Sorry, but you have no argument.
Funny, and your only argument is simply that I supposedly have no argument???
It goes back to Jillian's initial statement. If you're pro-life (imposing the law into reproductive choice) and pro this mother's choice to let her living breathing 13 year old son die (keeping the law out of it) , then it is you who is the hypocrite.