Right to Refuse Treatment PP7

I am against the state dictating what we can and cannot do with our selves, however, when it comes to children that must rely on an adult to make a rational decision between life or death, religion or modern medicine and the parents refuse to choose the modern medicine side, then let the courts go forward with their dictatorship. My opinion is that God has given the gifts and talents to specific people to improve quality of life and I agree with the judge's statement in the Kara Neumann case. He told the parents that, "God probably works through other people, some of them doctors." (BBC News Article, Wednesday, 7 October 2009 14:16 UK) You can't help but wonder what on earth people are thinking of when they make decisions on behalf of their children that could potential lead to that childs death. In the case of Daniel Hauser, I believe that the parents are in financial red tape and when they saw how much the cost of treatment would be to continue, they backed out. Why else would they begin treatment in the first place if they had been of this particular religious belief, the Nemenhah Band? You don't start the use of modern treatment if you are a solid believer of your faith ever, right? Like the Neumann's never once took Kara to the hospital because they believed 200% that their prayers would heal Kara. That is solid belief in your faith, however, wrong it may be, I don't question that the Neumann's had an alterior motive for what they did. I do question the Hauser's and what their motive was to seek treatment knowing it was successful and would allow Daniel to live and then to stop all of a sudden based on this ridiculous cult they, in my opinion, decided to become part of out of convenience. No it is not ethical for any parent to keep a minor child from receiving treatment that could give that child over a 95% rate of living a full life. If they could provide statistical proof that their alternative medicine choices had even close to just a 75% rate of improving the quality of life for their child then sobeit, but clearly, since one child has already died from ineffective prayer and the other child could die without more chemo treatment then the courts are within their rights to impose what they see best for the minor child.