Name: Medical Emancipation
Uploaded: 2025-05-04T15:16:40.000Z
Duration: 4 min 29 s
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I want to see my parents for the rights to my own body.

They're trying to force me to give her my body parts.

She's been in renal failure for months now.

Well, no one can force you to donate if you don't want to, can they?

They think they can, I'm under 18, they're my legal guardians.

Well, that's what I want you to tell them because they've been doing it to me my whole life.

So, there's a little over $700 here, and I know that's not enough, but it's all I have and I need your help.

You sure you want to go through with this?

Mrs. Fitzgerald's youngest child wishes to be medically emancipated from her parents.

Except there's no legal definition of medical emancipation, at least not in the state of California.

It's one of those new age terms that Mr. Alexander has latched onto.

Yes, I'm well aware of Mr. Alexander's reputation.

He once tried to sue God in my courtroom.

Did sue, your honor, Jerome Dylan versus the Diocese of California, and I won that one.

So, Mr. Alexander wants you to change the law.

An 11-year-old can't be emancipated, at least not legally.

My client is not seeking to be legally emancipated, she still loves her parents and still wants to live at home.

She just doesn't want to be cut open anymore.

Yes, Planned Parenthood versus Danforth, the mature minor doctrine, Smith versus Sibley, Grello versus Florida.

And defense is moving for summary dismissal?

Anna is too young to make a decision of this size on her own, she doesn't fully understand what it is that she wants, she's 11 years old.

The best interests of the child, your honor.

Is she here? Yes, but I was really hoping to keep her out of it.

Mrs. Fitzgerald, you just told me your daughter doesn't fully understand what she wants, if you want a decision today, I need to find that out.

I don't suppose there's any way around this without a hearing?

Mrs. Fitzgerald, looking back and only taking into account Anna's well-being, do you think it's reasonable to conclude that you might have taken this too far?

Looking at only Anna's situation, yes, it is.

But I have to think about my entire family.

So, this is a triage situation, compromising one child's health on behalf of the other.

Not for Kate, for Anna, remember, she's why we're here.

Yeah, but that's a trick question, because Anna isn't the only person in this equation, and if we were looking at it only from Anna's situation, sure, it is brutal.

I mean, who wants to be stuck and poked and prodded by needles, and you can look at me and you can say how awful I am for doing that to my child.

And you know what, it is awful, but it's not as awful as putting your child in the ground.

But the real question is, who does Anna belong to?

Do you swear to tell the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth?

Please state your name for the record and sit down.

You want to tell us why we're here? Why you're doing this? For medical emancipation.

You love your sister, right? You know she's sick.

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