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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.
- 2Deaths of children in religious family spark outrage over double standards●You're religious, you can kill all your children with no consequences. You support your trans kids, you're "an extremist
Commenters are drawing a sharp contrast between how society treats religious parents and parents of transgender children. Citing the case of Emma Joyce, who died at three, followed by her siblings Ava Joan and a brother from the same complication, posts argue that parents can reportedly lose children to preventable harm with no consequences, while those supporting trans kids are branded extremists.