This story pissed me off, and I want to know what you think.

It happened in Connecticut, where a court ruled that a 17-year-old must continue Chemotherapy, even though she doesn't want to keep undergoing the treatment.

According to totalnewswire.com:

The girl, identified as Cassandra C., is battling Hodgkin’s lymphoma and doctors say that chemotherapy gives her an 85% chance of living. Cassandra, however, is opposed to filling her body with toxins and has sought other types of treatment.

Her mother, Jackie Fortin, supports her daughter's choice to stop treatments:

She does not want the toxins. She does not want people telling her what to do with her body and how to treat it. They are also killing her body. They are killing her organs. They’re killing her insides. It’s not even a matter of dying. She’s not going to die.”

Doctors say if Cassandra did not undergo chemotherapy she would die within two years, but the girl claimed she was old enough to make her own decisions.

The court, however, says she's not mature enough, especially since she had run away from home after her first two treatments.

She may be young, but she's not too young to understand the consequences of her choices, and her mother agrees.

This hits me particularly hard because my own sister died of cancer on New Year's Eve, and she lived a year after her diagnosis, choosing not to undergo standard treatment because she didn't want to deal with the unpleasant side effects.

I think the state should butt out and let this family do what they think is best.

What do you think?

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