Posted on 01/08/2015 11:55:21 AM PST by Nachum
HARTFORD — The state Supreme Court ruled Thursday that a Windsor Locks teen is not legally mature enough to decide against life-saving chemotherapy. The unanimous decision, after a 75-minute hearing, upheld a lower court ruling that the state can force treatment for Hodgkin´s lymphoma on the girl, identified as Cassandra C. The state Department of Children and Families had been awarded custody of the child, who is "doing well" with chemotherapy at Connecticut Children´s Medical Center, a lawyer for the state told the justices. The court Thursday heard arguments from lawyers for Cassandra and her mother, Jackie Fortin, who supports
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Well past time to move to a less Statist State.
Outrageous.
I am starting to notice sites where, if they can’t shove the advertising in your face, you end up with a blank page.
I dunno. Hodgkin´s lymphoma is over 90% treatable and will lead to an agonizing death if untreated.
A girl that age is basically committing suicide without intervention on her behalf.
This is one of those that I think the government should be involved in. One of the VERY few times.
The court did reaffirm however that she IS old enough to decide to kill an unborn child - just not herself.
Welcome to ‘logic’ in 2015.
wonder why the mom and daughter is such a hurry for the daughter to die???
“wonder why the mom and daughter is such a hurry for the daughter to die???”
I don’t know what this chemo is like, but I’ve had two relatives opt out because it made them feel so sick. (Nausea.)
What will they do? Jail her if she defies them? Handcuff her and drag her off to the hospital and tie her to a bed?
So where does the line get drawn? 'No, you can't have that surgery because we've decided there's only a 10% chance of it being successful'? 'The DNR on the chart was overriden by the state who decided to not let anyone refuse medical treatment'
I don't agree with the young person's decision, but the absolute wrong answer is 'take the drugs, or the state will force you'
WifeofZeugma is on her second round. I’d never do it.
You’re despicable. Go back to DU.
All of your bodies are belong to us!
“wonder why the mom and daughter is such a hurry for the daughter to die???”
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What an awful thing to say.
They don’t believe in chemotherapy and want to seek alternatives
The state has no business interfering.
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Just said a prayer for your wife...and for you.
God bless.
That strawman argument isn’t at all the same.
The line is clearly drawn where a girl under the age of 18 doesn’t have the mental maturity to make decisions about her own welfare.
That’s the line. You might not like it, but it’s there.
If she was 18, she could make that decision to not be treated.
Thou shalt not say “no” to The State.
I believe she tried two rounds, two different mixtures that were made “just for her” and she got really sick and very tired, all the things that happen with chemo... and didn’t want to do it anymore. And mom, not sure but I assume having to watch and feel so desperate, to have her go through this and what if it doesn’t work, what if she dies from this anyway, and we wasted it sick... it must be terrible, no matter what! That said, I’d never let my 17 year old say no — I’d don’t know how I’d convince her, but I would — and this would NEVER have gone to the courts, and the department of family services or whatever it is called, would never had come to take her away from our house, period! It’s nuts, all of it... but with treatment she can/should survive, and she’s too young to say she can’t take it — she hardly knows what she’s made of yet — she needs to take it, survive, and then become an advocate to change the minds of other teens who would rather quit than fight!
“Approximately 90% to 95% of children with Hodgkin lymphoma can be cured”:
http://www.cancer.gov/cancertopics/pdq/treatment/childhodgkins/HealthProfessional/page1
The same is true for ALL childhood leukemias. Thus refusal by a parent of treatment for childhood leukemia is equivalent to refusing to give antibiotics that will cure your child of a fatal bacterial infection or refusing to have a child’s compound fracture repaired.
Is it child abuse for a parent to refuse treatments for the above two medical conditions? Murder, even? If so, then that would be the case for refusing treatment for childhood childhood leukemias.
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