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ihlr-21138	Benston, Shawna	Not of Minor Consequence?: Medical Decision-Making Autonomy and the Mature Minor Doctrine	2016	16	.pdf	application/pdf	5263	223	54	The legal system grants autonomy to make medical decisions to those over the age of 18 and denies it to those under the age of 18, due to an ostensible lack of “maturity” in the latter population sufficient to the legal authority to make such medical decisions. It is a moral and philosophical decision that, being a competent adult, is [the patient’s] alone.15 Of course, the Bouvia court was examining an issue of adult competence to make medical decisions; what remains to be explored is whether a capacitated minor can be granted the same freedom to determine for himself how much life devoid of “quality, dignity and purpose” is enough.	cache/ihlr-21138.pdf	txt/ihlr-21138.txt