He was also authorized to make decisions for a child who had two living parents, one of whom was unconscious, because parental authority runs to either parent, and either one may consent.

That is not a scandal.

It is the only workable rule.

A hospital cannot stop treating a child because one parent is in surgery.

So there is no crime.

I have asked.

I asked Ottilie Brandt, who said no.

I asked a family law attorney named Hallie Strand in the September, who spent forty minutes on it and charged me for twenty and said no.