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IN RE E.G.

No. 66089.

133 Ill.2d 98 (1989)

549 N.E.2d 322

In re E.G., a Minor (The People of the State of Illinois, Appellant, v. E.G., a Minor, Appellee).

Supreme Court of Illinois.

Rehearing denied January 29, 1990.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Neil F. Hartigan, Attorney General, of Springfield, and Richard M. Daley and Cecil A. Partee, State's Attorneys, of Chicago (Terence M. Madsen, Assistant Attorney General, of Chicago, and Thomas V. Gainer, Jr., Kenneth T. McCurry, Kim A. Novi, Inge Fryklund, Renee Goldfarb and James E. Fitzgerald, Assistant State's Attorneys, of counsel), for the People.

Jane M. Whicher, Harvey Grossman and Diane Geraghty, of Chicago, for appellee.

Donald T. Ridley, of Brooklyn, New York, for amicus curiae Watchtower Bible and Tract Society of New York, Inc.

Appellate court affirmed in part and reversed in part; circuit court reversed; case remanded.

JUSTICE RYAN delivered the opinion of the court:

Appellee, E.G., a 17-year-old woman, contracted leukemia and needed blood transfusions in the treatment of the disease. E.G. and her mother, Rosie Denton, refused to consent to the transfusions, contending that acceptance of blood would violate personal religious convictions rooted in their membership in the Jehovah...

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