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29 Va. J. Soc. Pol'y & L. 170 (2022)
My Body Broken for You: The Case for Overriding Religious Medical Exemptions for Minors

handle is hein.journals/vajsplw29 and id is 178 raw text is: MY BODY BROKEN FOR YOU: THE CASE FOR OVERRIDING RELIGIOUS MEDICAL EXEMPTIONS FOR MINORS Eva Quinones* INTRODUCTION .....................................................................................171 PART ONE: BACKGROUND & LITERATURE REVIEW .............................177 lA. The History of Compelling Medical Treatment.........................178 lB. Contemporary Theories of Parental Rights in the American Legal Sy s te m ....................................................................................1 8 2 PART TWO: LEGAL PRECEDENTS FOR COMPELLING TREATMENT ........185 2A. Legal Precedents on Religious Accommodation.......................186 2B. Constitutional Torts...................................................................189 2C. Enforcing the Law .....................................................................191 PART THREE: THE CASE FOR MANDATING MEDICINE..........................192 3A. Scope Conditions.......................................................................193 3B. Ethical Justifications for Compelling Medicine........................196 3C. A Potential Balancing Test........................................................199 C O N C L U SIO N .........................................................................................2 0 2 * Eva Quinones is a Ph.D. candidate at Yale University, where she studies the political economy of voting behavior and democratic backsliding, and a 2L and Furman Academic Scholar at NYU School of Law. Special thanks to Yale Law School professors Anthony Kronman and Bryan Garsten, and NYU School of Law professors Samuel Issacharoff, Emma Kaufman, and Barry Friedman for their guidance, as well as to the staff of the Virginia Journal of Social Policy and the Law for their keen attention to detail and helpful edits.

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