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So, just as I suspected. Saying a judge ruled her incompetent was not true. The judge refused to consider the mature minor doctrine as a loophole to take over. Simply on emotional grounds.
It was the Supreme Court that ruled her mentally incompetent.
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.[/B]
http://www.nbcnews.com/health/cance...able-cancer-must-continue-chemo-court-n282421
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