id	author	title	date	pages	extension	mime	words	sentence	flesch	summary	cache	txt
ihlr-16515	Schenberg, Beth A.	Harvesting Organs from Minors and Incompetent Adults to Supply the Nations Organ Drought: A Critical Review of the Substituted Judgment Doctrine and the Best Interest Standard	2007	42	.pdf	application/pdf	19842	1033	60	THE CONSTITUTIONAL RIGHTS OF MINORS AND INCOMPETENT ADULTS REGARDING MEDICAL DECISIONS Since medical decisions are so important and because procedures are so often permanent, decisions regarding the type of medical treatment received by minors and incompetent adults are typically determined by parents, guardians, and courts. The result of this has two detrimental flaws: (1) it fails to recognize a (formerly competent) incompetent individual's freedom of choice regarding previously decided medical decisions; and (2) it attempts to treat minors and never-before­ competent incompetent adults as though their wishes can be ascertained.	cache/ihlr-16515.pdf	txt/ihlr-16515.txt