Big government in Texas...

A 12 year old girl has been removed from her parents because the parents have expressed their wishes to refuse radiation treatment for their daughter.

If the State cannot prevent a person from murdering a child in utero, according to the fictional Constitutional right to privacy, how in the world can the State step in and mandate radiation treatment?

Being the spouse of a 3-time cancer survivor, including two triumphs over non-Hodgkin's lymphoma, who dealt with radiation, I can attest to the difficulty the treatment inflicts on a fully grown woman, let alone whatever it must do to a child.

Not only do I support the parents in this case, whose right it is to make medical decisions for their minor child, but I must once again point out the conflict of interest between overzealous government bureaucrats and individual liberties. Does the government have an obligation to protect us from ourselves?