It's a difficult subject you've brought up.
now we are in the territory of interfering with parenting styles or a person's lifestyle choices.
It always concerns me when people talk about controlling how parents look after their children. If a parent has a strong faith and strong spirituality, it's almost like they are not respected enough to raise their child in a manner that they believe to be best.
I don't have a lot of faith in doctors, mainly because they try to treat the symptoms not he cause in many cases. Does my honest and best interests for my own child, get overridden because people don't hold my views?
Don't get me wrong, taking an abundance of a chemical that clearly damages a growing baby, this can be dealt with.
But we are in danger of taking too much control over a persons life and that is a threat to liberty in general.
It's also like the argument over abortions. can we say on one side, it is ok to kill a foetus by use of abortion, but not ok to allow a mother to have habits that may damage the foetus? it is the issue of pro choice vs pro life.
I struggle with it myself.
I have strong liberal views so I would not want to interfere with a person's life and their choices.. at the same time, if I see a child suffering, I am strongly inclined to rescue the child. I think in these cases, the best way to judge the situation is to watch and see if the parent is acting out of love or acting out of neglect.
if there were a case of people having a lot of high fructose syrup for example, if this actually caused an increase of homosexual people, do we go to the parents and tell them and let them make a choice, or do we go to corporations and tell them and let them make a choice, or do we make it law that no mother can eat products with HFS in it, or do we make it law for corporations to not use HFS in products?