Connecticut Supreme Court upholds ruling that teen must undergo chemo

agree, I've known many as well. This girl must've had some sweet health insurance coverage.

NO so called Judge can rule anything in a Commercial Court and they ALL are Commercial. The Judge is only an Administrator and "cannot adjudicate from the bench". So you go ahead and do what you want, he and his Admiralty Court has no lawful power whatsoever, just legal power of the weapon and force and you can sue later.


Fuck you Judge. I dont consent.

WFS

As a human being, you have the God given right to determine what medical treatment you want or don't want!

Your opinion is nullified!

Agreed!

Time to flee the country to one that has NO extradition treaties with the USA!

Land of the Fee. Home of the Slave.

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"Doctors have said the teen has an 80 to 85 percent chance of living..." maybe in 1 year, and 97% die in 2-7 years. If the doctor is so sure the teen has an 80 to 85 percent chance of living then put it in writing for how long? Wake up people!

Why the f? If someone doesn't want to take that poison and wants to just go if it happens why force them?

This is like forcing someone into a gas chamber without their consent. Chemo will destroy you and kill you faster than any cancer can do. Everyone that I know that took chemo died within a year. EVERYONE. None got cured. All died. How's that for a poor track record...Big pharma and western MD's are EVIL, BRIANWASHED MURDERERS/LIARS.

Did the mother refuse ANY treatment method for this girl? Like holistic?

If the mother wants to pursue holistic treatment she is allowed to do that for her daughter. But if the mother is refusing any treatment for the girl, I do think the state should require the girl to receive treatment.

Which is extremely unfortunate, since I have heard how bad chemo therapy is.

Unfortunately she is now a pawn. If she beats it naturally they would have a strong interest in making sure she didn't live too long and become a poster child for refusing chemo.

The 85% chance of survival rate is usually based on a 5 year timeline. If you live 5 years and a day they will consider you a success story and will claim you were cured by their treatments. Of course no one mentions that with no treatment at all you will likely live 5 years or more.

How many of us know people who went to hell in a hand bag coinciding with the chemo. God only knows if they would have lived better and longer lives without the treatments.

I have an aunt who refused chemo and lived a great healthy long life for another 25 years. When she recently had a new bout of cancer they convinced her that she needed chemo this time. And as predictable as the sunrise she is now very ill and at risk of dying of pnumonia. Shrunk up a tumor but ruined her quality of life and is likely the begining of her end. Perhaps the cancer would have done her in but I dunno the treatment seems worse than the disease sometimes.

As others have stated, I have also read that the false positive diagnosis thing is happening all the time and it helps get the success rate numbers up. How many masectomies were over prescribed by now, who knows. SOme experts believe that many of these success stories about breast cancer are people that would never have died anyway without any treatment.

Who really knows for sure? But in a free world we could actually allow people to choose and then document their results. Then compare best alternative treatments properly administered vs chemo. Instead we get the story of someone who tried such and such and died instead of getting chemo. There are thousands of natural alternative treatments and only one is the best for any one situation. See cancertutor.com if you want the whole story!

I change my opinion. Thinking about how bad chemo therapy can be according to what I've heard, the person is allowed to ride out the illness if they feel their life would be better than with the treatment.

Land of the deceived, home of the slaves.

This calls for a peaceful protest ... you could be next.

... amid doctors admitting false diagnosis of cancer , this is just wrong... she should be allowed a dozen other opinions / diagnosis confirmations from other doctors to slow this down.

This encroaching of your freedom started with very small things most of you don't care and even agree, that's letting government enforced seat belt. Even now, I think most of you would agree it is necessary that seat belt should be enforced in the name of "for your own good". But, however miniscule matter you allow your government to control you, it will build from there into much bigger control like this enforcing chemo. If most of you did think about the future possibility of government controlling every aspect of your life, you would fight against seat belt enforcement. Some who understood this and fought for it lost because lack of support from the people. If at that time, you all fought and won against seat belt imposition, you have precedence to apply it to all other government meddling of your life.

The moral of the story is, small thing is important. People should learn to be vigilant toward anything that breaches their principle of freedom to choose.

There are ways to determine if one has cancer. Do home lab tests, see a chinese Dr. or someone who doesn't have to report to the state. Then, if you have
money go outside the country, If not, study everything you can about alternative treatments and get started. The state doesn't have to know your business.

88,000 French police wandering around with no clue is much more entertaining, and has successfully diverted attention for about 3 days now.

This Connecticut story may as well be dead.

That's the way it usually goes....

i would not worry about chemo at the moment - i am sure there is going to be a lot of radiation therapy taking place very soon

Exactly! Bury the story about human rights being taken away, again!!!

Group radiation therapy. More cost effective? :)

There's smoke in Paris. Yet they ignore the flames at home.

You said exactly what I was going to say in your OP. This is total bullshit!

Connecticut Supreme Court Forces Chemotherapy On Teen

A teen girl is now being forced to have chemotherapy against her mother’s wishes thanks to a new ruling by the Connecticut Supreme Court.
The case centers around Cassandra C., 17, of Windsor Locks, who wanted to stop her chemo and allow her cancer to take its course. A lower court in CT ruled that the girl wasn’t competent and she was taken from her mother, made a ward of the state and forced to continue the treatment.

[link to www.libertynews.com]

Contemplating youth and the end: Cassandra C. and the ‘mature minor’ debate

The debate here, and the Connecticut Supreme Court’s order, centers in large part on the notion of Cassandra’s age and maturity. It also speaks to a larger issue involving when adolescents and children can make their own medical decisions

[link to www.washingtonpost.com]

Cassandra, The Future Holds Lots Of Promise

Her mother, Jackie Fortin, says Cassandra believes the chemicals used in treatment could do more damage to her body than the cancer — a view the doctors don't share.

To be sure, my weekly chemotherapy treatments were not pleasant, but they were not unbearable either. Yes, it was toxic chemicals that were being streamed into my body, but as I saw it, my body had betrayed me by letting this unnatural cancer state overcome my own immune system.

[link to www.courant.com]

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I ain't saying shit on this one. Just putting it out there.

Connecticut Supreme Court: teen can be taken from mother for forced chemotherapy

After a hearing in the Child Protection Session of Superior Court, at which Cassandra’s doctors testified, the trial court “ordered that she be removed from her home and that she remain in DCF’s care and custody.”

Ms. Fortin said that in a letter to the Superior Court judge, Cassandra wrote that “no one has let her breathe” since the state took over her health care.

The court made Cassandra into a ward of the state and authorized DCF “to make all necessary medical decisions on Cassandra’s behalf.”

Against her will, Cassandra was subsequently hospitalized and not allowed to leave. Her mother says Cassandra “put up a fight” and was physically strapped to a bed, then forced to endure unwanted surgery and chemotherapy.

[link to www.policestateusa.com]

For follow-up

Why A 17-Year-Old With Curable Cancer Is Fighting For The Right To Refuse Chemo

But Cassandra believes that choice should be made by her alone. On Thursday, the Connecticut Supreme Court ruled that the teen did not prove she was mature enough to make this decision. Cassandra was hospitalized in December and remains there today, with limited access to outside communication and visitors.

The day of the ruling, Cassandra published a personal essay in the Hartford Courant about her experience. In the article, she describes crying and hiding from the police in her closet, running away from home after two days of chemotherapy, and being strapped to a hospital bed to undergo treatment against her will.

[link to www.businessinsider.com]

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For a government trying so hard to implement eugenics with it's ACA, this is a joke. This isn't about saving her life. Governments don't do that. They want more control.
PERIOD.