Les décisions de justice rapportées diffèrent du récit du magazine sur deux points : elles indiquent que E.G. a reçu plusieurs transfusions sur environ six semaines dans le cadre d'une ordonnance de tutelle, et non une seule transfusion forcée, et la Cour suprême de l'Illinois a confirmé en partie et infirmé en partie sur le fondement de la common law, refusant expressément de trancher la question du Premier Amendement, refusant de dire si E.G. elle-même était une mineure mature parce que l'affaire était devenue sans objet, et renvoyant l'affaire afin que la déclaration de négligence prononcée contre sa mère soit radiée.

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Contexte · 18 novembre 1989 Vérifié

Les décisions de justice rapportées diffèrent du récit du magazine sur deux points : elles indiquent que E.G. a reçu plusieurs transfusions sur environ six semaines dans le cadre d'une ordonnance de tutelle, et non une seule transfusion forcée, et la Cour suprême de l'Illinois a confirmé en partie et infirmé en partie sur le fondement de la common law, refusant expressément de trancher la question du Premier Amendement, refusant de dire si E.G. elle-même était une mineure mature parce que l'affaire était devenue sans objet, et renvoyant l'affaire afin que la déclaration de négligence prononcée contre sa mère soit radiée. Source: Illinois Supreme Court, 18 novembre 1989 Source: Illinois Appellate Court, First District (3rd Division), 23 septembre 1987 Source: Illinois Supreme Court, 18 novembre 1989 Source: Awake!, 22 mai 1994

Position de l’organisation ou explication ultérieure : La description par le magazine de la décision d'appel comme ‘a two-to-one decision’ est exacte, et il cite mot pour mot le critère du mineur mature énoncé par la Cour suprême de l'Illinois.

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Document public officiel Vérifié

Illinois Supreme Court, “In re E.G., a Minor, 133 Ill. 2d 98 (1989) — the reported facts”

18 novembre 1989 · pp.133 Ill. 2d 98 · Ryan J · Illinois Supreme Court

“On April 8, 1987, further hearings were held on this matter. E.G., having received several blood transfusions, was strong enough to take the stand.”

The reported facts: E.G. was diagnosed in February 1987 with acute nonlymphatic leukaemia; a temporary guardian with power to consent to transfusions was appointed on 25 February 1987; the trial court’s final ruling came on 18 May 1987; E.G. turned 18 on 25 November 1987. The Court also records her evidence that she asked to be sedated before the transfusions and said ‘[I]t seems as if everything that I wanted or believe in was just being disregarded.’ The Appellate Court reports the same events as ‘Appellant began receiving transfusions pursuant to this ruling.’

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Notes. The reported facts describe a course of transfusions over roughly six weeks under a guardianship order; the Awake! account describes a single transfusion given ‘in spite of her vigorous protests’.

Date de consultation. 19 septembre 2026 · Identifiant de la source. src-g94d-ilsc-1989-eg-transfusions

Document public officiel Vérifié

Illinois Appellate Court, First District (3rd Division), “In re E.G., a Minor, 161 Ill. App. 3d 765 (1987), Nos. 87—1791, 87—2065 cons.”

23 septembre 1987 · pp.161 Ill. App. 3d 765 · White J (Freeman J concurring; McNamara PJ dissenting) · Illinois Appellate Court

“The court found probable cause to believe that appellant was medically neglected and appointed the hospital official temporary custodian with power to consent to all medical treatment. Appellant began receiving transfusions pursuant to this ruling.”

The intermediate decision the Awake! article describes as ‘a two-to-one decision’ — accurately: Justice White wrote, Justice Freeman concurred and Presiding Justice McNamara dissented at length. The court ordered E.G. partially emancipated and granted her the right to accept or refuse transfusions, but affirmed the trial court’s finding that she had been medically neglected.

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Notes. The Illinois Supreme Court later affirmed in part and reversed in part, on common-law rather than constitutional grounds, and remanded for the neglect finding against the mother to be expunged.

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Document public officiel Vérifié

Illinois Supreme Court, “In re E.G., a Minor (The People of the State of Illinois, Appellant, v. E.G., a Minor, Appellee), 133 Ill. 2d 98 (1989), No. 66089”

18 novembre 1989 · pp.133 Ill. 2d 98 · Ryan J · Illinois Supreme Court

“If the evidence is clear and convincing that the minor is mature enough to appreciate the consequences of her actions, and that the minor is mature enough to exercise the judgment of an adult, then the mature minor doctrine affords her the common law right to consent to or refuse medical treatment.”

The passage the 22 May 1994 Awake! quotes, confirmed against the reported text. Opinion filed 18 November 1989; rehearing denied 29 January 1990; Ward and Clark JJ dissenting. The head matter records that the Watchtower Bible and Tract Society of New York, Inc. appeared as amicus curiae, by Donald T. Ridley of Brooklyn, New York.

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Notes. The Court decided the case on common-law grounds and expressly declined to decide the First Amendment question on which the Appellate Court had relied.

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Publication primaire des Témoins de Jéhovah Vérifié

Awake!, “Youths Who Have “Power Beyond What Is Normal””

22 mai 1994 · p.15 · par. 59 · Watchtower Bible and Tract Society of New York, Inc.

“The court found that Ernestine was a mature 17-year-old, able to make informed medical decisions; yet, amazingly, the court granted an order allowing blood transfusions. At the hospital two doctors were standing by, transfusion equipment set up, and as soon as the court’s decision came in, the transfusion was forcibly given to Ernestine in spite of her vigorous protests.”

The article’s account of the trial-court stage of the Chicago proceedings reported as In re E.G. It names Dr Stanley Yachnin, Dr Ner Littner and the hospital’s attorney Jane McAtee as witnesses, all three of whom appear in the reported judgments.

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Notes. The reported judgments record that E.G. received several transfusions over a period of weeks under a guardianship order, not a single forced transfusion.

Date de consultation. 19 septembre 2026 · Identifiant de la source. src-g94d-gregory-forced-transfusion

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L’affirmation et ses preuves

Illinois Supreme Court, “In re E.G., a Minor, 133 Ill. 2d 98 (1989) — the reported facts”

Illinois Appellate Court, First District (3rd Division), “In re E.G., a Minor, 161 Ill. App. 3d 765 (1987), Nos. 87—1791, 87—2065 cons.”

Illinois Supreme Court, “In re E.G., a Minor (The People of the State of Illinois, Appellant, v. E.G., a Minor, Appellee), 133 Ill. 2d 98 (1989), No. 66089”

Awake!, “Youths Who Have “Power Beyond What Is Normal””