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As annoying as sovcits are, we can't conflate them with people just asserting their rights.
It's reasonable to require consent before performing tests/procedures on your children. (Though I, personally, would trust the nursing staff and doctors more than this.)
The behavior here is a hint of terrible sovcit / antivax shit, but it hasn't crossed the line yet, and shouldn't (alone) require CPS yet.
If someone in the maternity ward had come up to me after my daughter was born and asked me if I consented to a blood test, I'd think it was a really weird thing to ask consent for, which is probably why no one asked as far as I remember (maybe it was buried in a bunch of legalese or something). Has a baby ever suffered any sort of grievous harm from a blood test? It's like asking for consent to wash the kid after it's born. No one asked us for consent to do that either, which is probably good because neither of us were exactly in the right mind to think about such things what with me seeing something with 50% of my DNA coming out of my wife's body and her suffering through something with 50% of her DNA coming out of her body.
this parent did not find it weird to be asked, because that's what they wanted. they requested that staff seek their consent before providing care.