In that case the parental right to guide the care of their children prevails.

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The Supreme Court at least since the 1920s has asserted a parental right to control the upbringing of their children. (Scalia, naturally, dissents.) And in 1979 the court held that right to control includes decisions over medical care.

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But under California law, she found she had no right to do so because parental rights in a surrogate birth are granted to the intended parents.

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The court felt that the boy's right to inviolability trumped the religious and parental rights of his mother and father.

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Progressives who support the right of fifteen year old girls to make decisions about abortion without parental notification do not trust these same girls later in life to make their own investment choices with their Social Security funds.

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