So you want the government to decide and not the parents? This is the problem with "you" people. You only care about parents right when you are for them.
1.Arbitrary power is most easily established on the ruins of liberty abused to licentiousness.
2. Happiness and moral duty are inseparably connected. -George Washington
"The foundation of our national policy will be laid in the pure and immutable principles of private morality." -From Washington's first inaugural address.
We have no government armed in power capable of contending in human passions unbridled by morality and religion. Our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other.
-John Adams
The founding fathers widely shared this view. They did not accept that freedom is an "unalienable right" on its own but rather that "that they are
endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights"
The founders didn't intend the framework of rights to serve an atheistic society simply because the framework of rights must be bounded by religious morality.
Because freedom without morals and religion is anarchy. No one has the absolute right to do what they want. The issue here is parents being self-absorbed or deluded to the extent that they would drug or mutilate their own children in pursuit of a hopeless nightmare (it's not even a dream)
Listen to the recent testimony of a father testifying in Tennesee on their child protection bill, explaining how he discovered his son was really his daughter when, at age 4(!) his child was having a hard time sleeping (!)
Tell me this is someone who only has his kid's best interest at heart.
