Religion doesn't create ignorance. Ignorance creates religion, or at least what the ignorant call religion. Ignorance creates the perceived NEED for religion to explain that which there is no current explanation for.

The Chemo issue or any medical treatment versus so-called religious beliefs issue has nothing to do with God or religion, by anyone's deinition. It is simply a question whether spreading one's legs and squeezing out a creature, gives the one excreting the creature total and unfettered ownership and disposal rights over that creature as one has over a 2 x 4 purchased at Home Depot.

The answer, in this country and culture is, NO it does not.

One can buy a dog but may not legally torture that dog. One cannot leave a child in a closed car in Florida in July, even if they made that child and a person can not escape culpability for the death of a child by simply watching that child eaten by ants and not removing that child from the ant hill.

It is not a religious question at all, but a simple matter of the limit of property and or parental rights.