"people suffer do to thier delusion."
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Almost, in reality people suffer "DUE" to your English and spelling.

The bible and Jesus said it would work. The religious have been bamboozled, the problem is they tend to behave in such a way that people suffer do to thier delusion.

Does this also apply to incapacitated people over 18?

People should not be able to withhold PROVEN treatments from minor children. PERIOD. This is the 21st century people, the world isn't flat! You have the right to believe all the superstitions that you want to in this country, you don't have the right to KILL someone because of them. That's left to the zealots we are trying to get rid of now in OTHER parts of the world!

The law, as it stands, allow WI parents to allow prayer as acceptable treatment. Personally, I don;t know how far it goes. I want parents to have thar right to refuse treatment or look for alternative treatments for their children, but I don't think any child should suffer due to a parents religious views.

jvlmom, of course parents SHOULD have the right to say no to treatment for their kids. There is a very large group of parents that vaccinate selectively, or not at all. The new vaccine Gardasil that they are trying to give to all girls is implicated in quite a few lawsuits involving permanent nerve damage. The "behavior modification' drugs
are extremely dangerous and some have been proven to cause suicidal thoughts in young children

Just because a doc wants to give your kid something, doesn't mean it's good for them.

...freedom of religion. They didnt want their kid to die. They just believed in the healing power of god. If they took her to the hospital and the dr. accidentally misdiagnosed her and she died......would you be prosecuting him for murder since he took the kid to the hospital. The last thing this guy wanted was to kill his daughter. A grieving father shouldn't be put in jail.

sannio: you bring up some very good points. I do not where the limits are however I do know that there are limits. Diabetes is treatable and survivable, so in my opinion these parents were acting on the illegal side of your questions.

Resufing treatment is one thing if you are 18 and over. I do not agree with a parents being able to refuse treatment for one of their children, just because she was their child she was not old enough to decide for herself as to wether she wanted to be treated or not! This was sooooooo wrong, I do not care if it was due to religous beliefs etc....IT WAS WRONG!

I don't want to pass judgment here, but what if me and my wife decided we wanted to live naturally off the land. We buy land, and live off of whatever we produce. We have a child and she gets sick and dies. Is this a crime? Could it be considered a crime to force medical procedures onto someone? What if treatment costs one million dollars, and there's a 20% survival rate, should someone be forced to have this done to their child? If not, who decides, and where's the cut-off? $100K? $500K 20% survival? 50%? These are questions that everyone should think about.

I meant refuse medical treatment, not provide medical treatment. Sorry.

You can provide medical treatment. However they were not pursuing it for their child and the law says that you must take care of your children. I am not sure the exact wording but basically they were not providing necessary care for their child’s health. Also I would like to say with them thinking that if they prayed that god would heal their child. It is not enough for them that god gave them freewill; god provided us with the ability to diagnose diseases, with the ability to produce medicine, with the common sense to pursue this for the ones that we love. God gave them every opportunity to take care of their child, but that wasn’t good enough for them they wanted it to just happen in their own home out of thin air by praying for it.

I thought the law said you can refuse medical treatment?