From what I've read so far this is a massive cock up and a wholly inappropriate use of the law. There might be more going on than we know but this is a free country with two health care systems (public and private) and we have freedom of movement. If I want to take my kid elsewhere fir medical treatment I have that…

they were attempting to take him to a proton therapy centre in the Czech Republic.

Another aspect of it that I thought was incredibly distasteful, was how the media kept going on and on about the family being Jehova's witnesses. While they oppose blood transfusions for religious reasons they do not object to cancer treatments in any shape or form and it should never have been made into the big issue…

I want to bracket for a moment the parents' decisions (because of the religious angle) and ask how many kids in England /UK went missing last week? Was this kind police and media effort put into tracking them down?

From the Guardian coverage, they were going, not just to sell the property, but to take the kid someplace where he could have the procedure.

I knew a guy in college who organized anti-rape and pro-body image events with his frat and would often wear a pink shirt that said "THIS IS WHAT A FEMINIST LOOKS LIKE." He was cute and funny and I thought, Wow, he must not be like the others.

I always prefer the Gendo Ikari when i like to do some deep thoughts.

this. is very interesting. great job, kate.

This is like a more horrifying version of that swimsuit model getting photoshopped yesterday. Both offending groups are trying to make it sound like they were just trying to do the respective women a favor, and they don't get why everyone is getting so mad. "We just want you to be beautiful. Don't you want to be…