Court forces 17 year old to take Chemo treatments against her will

Natural selection. If you're dumb enough to think modern medicine is a "poison" or whatever, buh-bye. It's absolutely pointless to try and reason with these people, especially the ones that start throwing around the religious card. Your choice. Have fun being dead.
We're struggling with overpopulation anyway.

The issue is that the patient is still a minor. You say that if the girl is dumb enough to believe that chemo is "poison", she deserves to die, but would you feel the same way if the girl was younger? Most people would say that 17 is close enough to 18 that it wouldn't matter, but if you actually read the article instead of just the headline you would see stuff like:

"But Connecticut Attorney General George Jepsen has raised questions about the competency of both Cassandra and her mother in a recently filed court brief."

"Jackie Fortin, who brought up Cassandra on her own following a divorce, failed to bring her daughter to at least four doctor's appointments last summer and fall —two months before a noticeable lump in the teen's neck finally was diagnosed as cancer, court records show."

"Ultimately, a team of doctors formed to treat Cassandra's cancer became concerned with Fortin's behavior, worrying "that Cassandra's mother was not coming in and getting the appropriate medical … care for this … malignant disease which is lethal if it's untreated," according to the brief filed by Jepsen. "…Interestingly enough, Cassandra also expressed concerns about not wanting to anger her mother because her mother was very distrustful of physicians.""

"Doctors eventually notified child-welfare agents at DCF about their growing concerns. And during at a court hearing on the matter late last year, a judge observed "how closely (Cassandra) followed her mother's testimony and hung on her every word. The DCF investigations worker (also) testified … that Cassandra's mother did not appear to be in support of the chemotherapy and that Cassandra is concerned about going against what her mother would like to see happen," Jepsen's brief states."