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Emma Joyce
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- 1Four siblings died after parents chose prayer over medicine●NEW: Emma Joyce died at 3 years old. The next year, her sister Ava Joan died. Then their brother died from the same comp
ProPublica reports that Emma Joyce died at age three, and within the following years three more of her siblings died, including her sister Ava Joan and a brother, all from complications of untreated diabetes. The parents, who relied on prayer rather than medical treatment, are at the center of the report, which has drawn widespread reaction about religious faith healing and failures to protect children from preventable deaths.
- 2Anger over double standard on religious parents versus trans-supportive parents●You're religious, you can kill all your children with no consequences. You support your trans kids, you're "an extremist
Commenters are condemning what they call a double standard in how authorities treat parents: those who rely on religious exemptions allegedly face no consequences after children died from untreated medical complications, while parents who support their transgender children are labeled extremists promoting a dangerous ideology. Posts cite the deaths of siblings Emma Joyce and Ava Joan as examples of fatal outcomes linked to faith-based refusal of care.