I am not a religious person. I was raised a Quaker, which has directly influenced how I feel about religion. I understand people have faith, I respect it, I just don't.

But when I read about the family in WI who allowed their daughter to die due to untreated type 1 diabetes, preferring to pray for God to heal her instead, I was absolutely livid. How could you allow your child to stop talking and walking and just think that's ok? Just think that God will make it all better?

I was thrilled to hear that the parents in this case are being prosecuted. I do believe that people have the right to practice whatever religion they choose to practice, but when that religion interferes with the health and well-being of a child, it becomes abuse. If an adult chooses, for religious reasons, to not recieve a blood transfusion or any other type of medical care, that's their choice and should be respected, but children should not have that choice made for them by their parents.

Parents don't have the right to watch their kids die over preventable diseases in the name of religion. These cases should be prosecuted and I'm glad to see that the tide seems to be turning.

But it still makes me sick and saddened beyond belief that this child was lost to a treatable disease.