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Should a 14 year-old have the right to deny life saving treatment? Why? Or why not?

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Answer: Unlike their adult counterparts, teenagers generally do not have the right to make their own medical decisions, and physicians, families, and sometimes the courts are left to make difficult choices that have implications for religious freedom, parental rights, and a child's well-being alike.

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