Teen girl and mother fight the state over right to refuse chemo cancer treatment

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150. I still have to wonder about how true that is...

I know that in a state I used to live in would declare any adult who refused medication for cancer to be unstable and incapable of making such choices themselves and would then force them to endure "treatment" anyway. There it doesn't matter what your age or anything other than being wealthy... you will have treatment and pay for it too. Choice is only welcome as long as one chooses as the state and their special interests desire.

I recall sitting in a clinic one day waiting for an exam when nurse saw an anomaly in the physical appearance and rushed out of the room bringing back some other person, not ID'd as a nurse or any professional standing, looked at me from across the room and decided I needed to have a biopsy. They made an appointment with a "specialist" for me without asking consent to do so. Furthermore, when I called this professional's office to see what had been set up for me by the clinic, I found it was going to cost $300.00 just to walk through the door. I canceled the appointment. I was later notified that I needed to go to this specialist, I moved to another state. What the clinic was freaking out about could have been dealt with by asking me what it was... it was the result of an injury and was not a major health concern for decades and is still not a problem.

Just because the judge "said so" isn't good enough, was an actual third party evaluation of the girl's state of mind conducted? I find the medical industrial complex still has its way with us, even with the ACA. It's going to be a long drawn out battle to change that situation.