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This is a perfect example of exercising the right to privacy that is necessary to maintain in order to claim this is a civil, safe, and mature society.
It is nobody's business other than this family and those responsible given their positions at the facilities being used.
Whether or not anyone outside that circle has an opinion or not is totally irrelevant other than supporting the families right to make the decision themselves.
To intrude, or even think one has the right to intrude based upon some belief system one may have is a breach of a fundamental right that is necessary to maintain the decency we expect as members of a society that respects the rights of individuals.
We have seen far too many cases in recent years where that right has been challenged, unfortunately under the guise of so called religious convictions, which are a total misrepresentation and degradation of those values.
What is private is private, what is "god's" is "God's", and how I wish to decide over matters of my life and death, and those of my loved ones is mine and "ours"--and not for the collective to decide.
Help keep the mob out of my house, and I'll help keep it out of yours. Those are my terms for agreeing to being a member of this society, and the laws upon which the nation was founded protect it.
It is the same principle at stake in questions involving contraception, abortion, and euthanasia.
Grow up America.
