Posted by
AVNevis on Thursday, July 13, 2006 2:38:18 AM
This
story really irks me. A social services agency is asking for a court
order to force a 16 year old cancer patient to undergo chemotherapy for
a second time. But after going through it once, he doesn'?t want to do
it again, and his family agrees.
It would be a much different
story if this were a little kid and the family was reckless in avoiding
necessary and uncontroversial treatment. But that is not the case here,
as there are definite reasons why the patient would not want to
experience that very excruciating process.
This is a penultimate example of one of the biggest battles in this culture war: Who owns kids, their parents or the state?