...and this is what caused it to fall into little pieces today.
From a dissenting opinion:
After closing arguments, the court found that it was in Simone D.’s best interest to administer ECT even though it acknowledged that she would probably never “get better” [italics added]: “she perhaps could die. Perhaps she wants to die. But that’s not for us to determine. We must prevent her from dying.”
To sum up:
1) Women are subject to electroschock therapy 2x-3x as often as men.
2) ECT doctors are 95% men; patients are 70% women.
3) The women in the story doesn't speak English.
I call white-supremacist capitalist patriarchal bullshit.
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