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Are you seriously comparing non-life threatening medical procedures to assisted suicide? How are you that far off into the weeds?


I'm saying there's no real difference in being able to uniformly say a father should be able to control her daughter's body in medical decisions if it is doctor-approved suicide or doctor-approved uterus removal, if the father gets to just say "well she has a personality disorder, the government is responsible in protecting her by preventing her from medically-approved treatments".


So if my schizophrenic daughter decides to euthanize herself because of a recent hallucination I should not intervene? I’d be controlling her body even though when the hallucinations abate later she’d be thanking me for saving her?




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