Illinois Supreme Court, “In re E.G., a Minor, 133 Ill. 2d 98 (1989) — dissent of Ward J”
“The safeguarding of health and the preservation of life are obviously different conditions from one in which a minor will be held to have a common law right, as the majority puts it, to refuse medical treatment and sometimes in effect take his own life.”
One of two dissents. Ward J also objected that the majority ‘does not attempt to state a standard by which “mature” is to be measured by judges in making these important findings’. Clark J dissented separately on mootness. Neither dissent is mentioned in the Awake! account.
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