{"id":47808,"date":"2015-01-10T19:00:31","date_gmt":"2015-01-10T19:00:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/npr_are_teenagers_capable_of_making_life-or-death_decisions\/"},"modified":"2015-01-10T19:00:31","modified_gmt":"2015-01-10T19:00:31","slug":"npr_are_teenagers_capable_of_making_life-or-death_decisions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=47808","title":{"rendered":"(NPR) Are Teenagers Capable Of Making Life-Or-Death Decisions?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Connecticut Supreme Court&#8217;s ruling that 17-year-old Cassandra could be forced to undergo cancer treatment sparked thousands of impassioned comments on NPR.org and Facebook.<\/p>\n<p>Cassandra, who is being identified by her first name because she is a minor, had been removed from her home and put in the custody of child welfare authorities after she said she didn&#8217;t want chemotherapy for Hodgkin lymphoma.<\/p>\n<p>The state and her doctors said that without treatment, she would die. With treatment, she has an 85 percent chance of survival.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.npr.org\/blogs\/health\/2015\/01\/09\/376122022\/are-teenagers-capable-of-making-life-or-death-decisions?sc=tw\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Connecticut Supreme Court&#8217;s ruling that 17-year-old Cassandra could be forced to undergo cancer treatment sparked thousands of impassioned comments on NPR.org and Facebook. Cassandra, who is being identified by her first name because she is a minor, had been<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=47808\">Read more &#8250;<\/a><\/div>\n<p><!-- end of .read-more --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":794,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[48,39,40,175,101,438,168,104,114,96,98,184,151,110,34],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-47808","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-christian-life-church-life","category-culture-watch","category-economics-politics","category-anthropology","category-children","category-death-burial-funerals","category-ethics-moral-theology","category-health-medicine","category-law-legal-issues","category-life-ethics","category-marriage-family","category-parish-ministry","category-politics-in-general","category-teens-youth","category-theology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47808","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/794"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=47808"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47808\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=47808"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=47808"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=47808"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}