# Connecticut can now force a 17-year old to undergo chemotherapy

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**Created:** [January 9, 2015, 11:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/connecticut-can-now-force-a-17-year-old-to-undergo-chemotherapy/709384 "2015-01-09T11:40:31Z")\
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**Post date:** [January 13, 2015, 1:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/connecticut-can-now-force-a-17-year-old-to-undergo-chemotherapy/709384/108 "2015-01-13T01:56:13Z")

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> [@Ayatollah Yawuntz](#):
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> Ma just doesn’t get it:
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> “She may not be able to have children after this, because **it affects everything in your body** ,” her mother, Jackie Fortin, said…
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> Kind of like death does, innit? Especially in the precluding-having-children department.

:rolleyes:

I happen to know from personal experience that it is not necessary to have children in order to have a good, happy, and worthwhile life.

Death is preferable to sterility, really?

:rolleyes:

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