"Parents may be free to become martyrs themselves. But it does not follow they are free, in identical circumstances, to make martyrs of their children before they have reached the age of full and legal discretion when they can make that choice for themselves." Prince v. Massachusetts, 344 U.S. 158 (1944).
She is months shy of 18 and doesn’t want the treatment.
That should be the end of it.
No medical authority can guarantee a cancer cure, and this one didn’t either. The definition of cure has even been changed to remission for ever smaller amounts of time. Residual long-term effects on the body of imbibing the ferocious poisons that make up chemotherapy are also not well understood or documented, and the testimonies of suffering former patients are commonly ignored for purely mercenary reasons. The chemo could kill the cancer fast and her slow, and if she died from the chemo after a certain period of time the same doctors and legal system would call it a cure and a success at her gravesite - and that’s an all-too- common statistical fact.
As well, we are talking about a so-called child only a half-year from her 18th birthday who also has the legal authority to get an abortion on her own.
In short, she HAS reached “the age of full and legal discretion when she can make that choice for herself,” from your SCOTUS quote, IN FACT.
And there ARE legitimate alternate medical theories and healing approaches to cancer accepted around the whole world.
As I said, and I repeat, this decision was an atrocity.
BTW, your SCOTUS quote directly counters your FReepname.
Shoulda used one of the other ones.