CONNECTICUT COURT RULES AGAINST TEEN WHO DIDN'T WANT CHEMO [View all]
Source: AP
BY PAT EATON-ROBB
HARTFORD, Conn. (AP) -- 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. She, with the support of her mother, had fought against the six-month course of 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."
The court ruled that her lawyers had the opportunity to prove her maturity during a Juvenile Court hearing in December and failed to do so "under any standard."
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Jackie Fortin of Windsor Locks, Conn., speaks outside the Connecticut Supreme Court in Hartford, Conn., on Thursday, Jan. 8, 2015, shortly after the court ruled the that state child protection officials aren't violating the rights of her 17-year-old daughter by forcing the girl to undergo cancer chemotherapy she doesn't want. (AP Photo/Pat Eaton-Robb)
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