Legal Issues

Mother Wins Court Battle To Refuse Treatment for HIV Infected Son

Published in AIDS Weekly, September 28th, 1998

A mother who feared powerful AIDS drugs would kill her HIV infected 4-year-old son rather than extend his life won the right to refuse treatment for the boy.

A Maine state judge refused to give custody of the boy to the state Department of Human Services, which had argued his mother was jeopardizing his health.

The mother had said that she saw her 3-year-old daughter go through an agonizing death while on the drug AZT, and she did not want her son to suffer the same way.

"[The woman] gets to keep custody, she gets to make all the decisions regarding his medical treatment," said the woman's sister.

The woman...

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Source: AIDS Weekly (1998-09-28)

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