It Boggles the Mind

As a good lefty, I'm generally down with the concept that government can be a useful tool for solving problems. Then something like this happens. It's enough to make me want to buy a gun and a tin foil hat, and move out to the middle of nowhere so I can set traps for the black helicopters. 

I mean, seriously? A seventeen-year-old gets cancer, decides she doesn't want the chemo, has the support of her parents in her decision, and so, at the request of the medical team, the State of Connecticut steps in to remove her from her family and force her to undergo chemotherapy. Excuse the language, but how fucked up is that? 

I don't care if she thinks aliens are going to descend from the heavens and cure her with their extraterrestrial technology, nor does it matter what the odds of survival with or without chemo are, no one should be able to force another person to undergo chemotherapy against their wishes regardless of their reasons for that choice. 

Although I've never been there -- and Joe Lieberman notwithstanding -- Connecticut always struck me as a relatively progressive state. Clearly, I was mistaken. 

Idiots.