The idea that medicine can override the parent’s decision to refuse medicine to heal their child is justified through the principles of beneficence, justice, and paternalism. According to the principle of beneficence, it supports decisions that are made to relieve a patient form any harm. The medicine given will promote the health and well-being of the child and minimize his suffering and pain. Here, the duty of beneficence requires that the physician intervene on behalf of saving the patient's life in belief that the parents are not acting in their best interest for the child. Following the principle of beneficence, paternalism demands for decisions to be overridden when a patient’s autonomy has been compromised. In this case, I do believe
