Gr8ish

No, Scott. My position is that babies have rights, too — including the right not to suffer a preventable brain hemorrhage because their parents believed an internet conspiracy theory. Declining vitamin K is not automatically grounds for removing a child. But parental authority is not unlimited when a child's life is at stake. A November 2026 JAMA study involving 5.2 million infants found that babies who did not receive vitamin K had 2.43 times the adjusted risk of intracranial bleeding. You want to discuss the hypothetical rights of parents. I want to discuss the very real brains of their children. We have a remarkably safe, effective intervention that prevents a potentially catastrophic condition. You seem more concerned about protecting the decision than protecting the child. And 21 million years of evolution is a curious argument from someone who presumably enjoys antibiotics, sanitation, and not dying in infancy.