jkapp
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Post by jkapp on Jan 8, 2015 15:05:49 GMT -5
At least according to the Connecticut Supreme Court...
www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/connecticut-court-rules-against-teen-who-didnt-want-chemo/ar-AA7W0Su?ocid=iehp
Connecticut court rules against teen who didn't want chemo
The Connecticut Supreme Court ruled Thursday that state officials aren't violating the rights of a 17-year-old girl by forcing her to undergo cancer chemotherapy she doesn't want.
The decision came in the case of the girl known in court documents only as Cassandra C., who will be free to make her own medical decisions when she turns 18 in September. Her mother agreed with her decision against chemotherapy.
The case centered on whether the girl is mature enough to determine how to treat her Hodgkin lymphoma, which she was diagnosed with in September. Several other states recognize the "mature minor doctrine."
Cassandra currently is confined in a room at Connecticut Children's Medical Center in Hartford, where she is being forced to undergo chemotherapy. Doctors said the chemotherapy would give her an 85 percent chance of survival, but without it there was a near-certainty of death within two years.
And if waterboarding cured a disease, it would be okay to use, then? 
So...I guess this means not only is forcefully injecting poison into a 17-year-old girl okay, but this also means SHE DOESN'T HAVE ANY RIGHTS OVER HER OWN BODY!!!!! So much for the abortion rhetoric, eh, liberals? All it takes is a girl getting cancer to throw those "women have rights over their own bodies" speeches right out the window...
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The Captain
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Post by The Captain on Jan 8, 2015 15:12:28 GMT -5
It's not a feminism issue. They've done shit like this with boys as well.
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zibazinski
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Post by zibazinski on Jan 8, 2015 16:19:36 GMT -5
It's wrong regardless. I wonder if they'd be so into forcing her into treatment she doesn't want if she had no insurance? That's a bill I wouldn't be paying.
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Post by djAdvocate on Jan 8, 2015 19:30:07 GMT -5
i just heard on the radio that the girl is getting her death sentence. FREEDOM!!!!!
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Post by djAdvocate on Jan 8, 2015 19:31:28 GMT -5
duplicate thread, btw/
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