This story has been all over the news for the past two days. A young girl, 11 years old, has died because her parents chose to pray rather than take her to the 
hospital. She ultimately died of ketoacidosis (diabetes), and her death would have easily been prevented by a treatment of insulin and basic medical care. The girl’s family “believe in the Bible and that healing comes from God, but that they do not belong to an organized religion or faith, are not fanatics and have nothing against doctors.”
The controversy comes from their choices once they noticed something was wrong:
“We just noticed a tiredness within the past two weeks,” she said Wednesday. “And then just the day before and that day (she died), it suddenly just went to a more serious situation. We stayed fast in prayer then. We believed that she would recover. We saw signs that to us, it looked like she was recovering.”
The question, then, is whether or not it is bad parenting to deny / avoid medical care when something is clearly not right.
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