state of connecticut forcing teen with cancer into the custody of dcf in order to undergo chemo treatment that she, and her family, refused.

http://www.foxnews.com/health/2015/01/0 ... reatments/

at 17 years old, i think she's old and mature enough to understand the consequences of not going through the treatment and to come to a decision with her family. i don't think the state should be intervening here. what do you guys think?

Absolutely an overstep. 17 years old is plenty old enough to weigh in on your own medical life, and if your parents support you, the state should STFU and stay out of it.

Question: who brought this to the higher courts? If a friend, that's crap. If it's the doctor, they should press charges regarding patient-doctor confidentiality and HIPAA laws.

Ace2cool wrote:Absolutely an overstep. 17 years old is plenty old enough to weigh in on your own medical life, and if your parents support you, the state should STFU and stay out of it.

Really!
An underage minor that happens to be mentally incompetent.

http://www.nbcnews.com/health/cancer/co ... rt-n282421

"A 17-year-old Connecticut girl with a highly curable cancer is not mentally competent to make her own medical decisions and will continue to receive the chemotherapy treatments she's battled to halt, the Connecticut Supreme Court ordered Thursday.

Chief Justice Chase T. Rogers ruled that the teen — listed only as Cassandra C. in legal records — is not mature by any standard.

That means Cassandra will remain at a Hartford hospital, in the temporary custody of child-welfare workers, and will receive her full course of chemotherapy to treat Hodgkin lymphoma. Doctors have said her odds at recovery are 80 to 85 percent with chemo, but that she will die without it. "

This is clearly a case where the government needs to be involved

Why were republicans not opposed to Governor Ultra sound for getting the Va. state government involved in a family's personal business?

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/03/0 ... 27707.html

The good news about this former republican governor is he is headed to jail

Why were republicans so intent on getting the government involved in the Terry Schiavo case a few years ago against the personal wishes of the family?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Terri_Schiavo_case

Kind of weird positions coming from the right

Telcoman.

telcoman wrote:This is clearly a case where the government needs to be involved

idk when this girl's birthday is, but suppose it was in 2 months. in 2 months time, you're saying she would have matured enough to make the decision to end her chemo since she's now legally an adult and, by law, apparently all of a sudden able to make decisions about her health care?

In two months that could be too late.
85% success rate is pretty good odds
A family member spent a month in the hospital to undergo Chemo five years ago.
He had to have all his stem cells removed and frozen while the chemo killed the cancer cells
The stem cells were then replaced in his body and he has no more cancer and is fine now
Don't knock the medical technology.
Some parents are just too dumb to understand the medical technology and in the case of a minor the state needs to get involved to safe a life.

Telcoman

And if that is the case, then what? Some people are too dumb to not eat Big Macs every day. Should the gubmint tell us all what to eat too? Oh wait, Michelle Obama is already trying to do that and failing miserably.