As decisões publicadas divergem do relato da revista em dois pontos: elas registram que E.G. recebeu várias transfusões ao longo de cerca de seis semanas sob uma ordem de tutela, e não uma única transfusão forçada, e a Suprema Corte de Illinois confirmou em parte e reformou em parte a decisão com base no direito consuetudinário (common law), recusando-se expressamente a decidir a questão da Primeira Emenda, deixando de decidir se a própria E.G. era uma menor madura por ter o caso perdido o objeto, e devolvendo o processo para que fosse cancelada a conclusão de negligência contra a mãe dela.

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Contexto · 18 de novembro de 1989 Verificado

As decisões publicadas divergem do relato da revista em dois pontos: elas registram que E.G. recebeu várias transfusões ao longo de cerca de seis semanas sob uma ordem de tutela, e não uma única transfusão forçada, e a Suprema Corte de Illinois confirmou em parte e reformou em parte a decisão com base no direito consuetudinário (common law), recusando-se expressamente a decidir a questão da Primeira Emenda, deixando de decidir se a própria E.G. era uma menor madura por ter o caso perdido o objeto, e devolvendo o processo para que fosse cancelada a conclusão de negligência contra a mãe dela. Source: Illinois Supreme Court, 18 de novembro de 1989 Source: Illinois Appellate Court, First District (3rd Division), 23 de setembro de 1987 Source: Illinois Supreme Court, 18 de novembro de 1989 Source: Awake!, 22 de maio de 1994

A posição da organização ou explicação posterior: A descrição que a revista faz da decisão de segunda instância como ‘a two-to-one decision’ é exata, e a revista cita palavra por palavra o critério de menor madura fixado pela Suprema Corte de Illinois.

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Registro público oficial Verificado

Illinois Supreme Court, “In re E.G., a Minor, 133 Ill. 2d 98 (1989) — the reported facts”

18 de novembro de 1989 · pp.133 Ill. 2d 98 · Ryan J · Illinois Supreme Court

“On April 8, 1987, further hearings were held on this matter. E.G., having received several blood transfusions, was strong enough to take the stand.”

The reported facts: E.G. was diagnosed in February 1987 with acute nonlymphatic leukaemia; a temporary guardian with power to consent to transfusions was appointed on 25 February 1987; the trial court’s final ruling came on 18 May 1987; E.G. turned 18 on 25 November 1987. The Court also records her evidence that she asked to be sedated before the transfusions and said ‘[I]t seems as if everything that I wanted or believe in was just being disregarded.’ The Appellate Court reports the same events as ‘Appellant began receiving transfusions pursuant to this ruling.’

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Nota de procedência e verificação

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Notes. The reported facts describe a course of transfusions over roughly six weeks under a guardianship order; the Awake! account describes a single transfusion given ‘in spite of her vigorous protests’.

Consultado em. 19 de setembro de 2026 · Identificador da fonte. src-g94d-ilsc-1989-eg-transfusions

Registro público oficial Verificado

Illinois Appellate Court, First District (3rd Division), “In re E.G., a Minor, 161 Ill. App. 3d 765 (1987), Nos. 87—1791, 87—2065 cons.”

23 de setembro de 1987 · pp.161 Ill. App. 3d 765 · White J (Freeman J concurring; McNamara PJ dissenting) · Illinois Appellate Court

“The court found probable cause to believe that appellant was medically neglected and appointed the hospital official temporary custodian with power to consent to all medical treatment. Appellant began receiving transfusions pursuant to this ruling.”

The intermediate decision the Awake! article describes as ‘a two-to-one decision’ — accurately: Justice White wrote, Justice Freeman concurred and Presiding Justice McNamara dissented at length. The court ordered E.G. partially emancipated and granted her the right to accept or refuse transfusions, but affirmed the trial court’s finding that she had been medically neglected.

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Nota de procedência e verificação

Nota de confiança. The full reported opinion and head matter were downloaded from the Caselaw Access Project on 19 September 2026 and read; the composition of the court and the disposition were confirmed.

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Notes. The Illinois Supreme Court later affirmed in part and reversed in part, on common-law rather than constitutional grounds, and remanded for the neglect finding against the mother to be expunged.

Consultado em. 19 de setembro de 2026 · Identificador da fonte. src-g94d-ilapp-1987-eg

Registro público oficial Verificado

Illinois Supreme Court, “In re E.G., a Minor (The People of the State of Illinois, Appellant, v. E.G., a Minor, Appellee), 133 Ill. 2d 98 (1989), No. 66089”

18 de novembro de 1989 · pp.133 Ill. 2d 98 · Ryan J · Illinois Supreme Court

“If the evidence is clear and convincing that the minor is mature enough to appreciate the consequences of her actions, and that the minor is mature enough to exercise the judgment of an adult, then the mature minor doctrine affords her the common law right to consent to or refuse medical treatment.”

The passage the 22 May 1994 Awake! quotes, confirmed against the reported text. Opinion filed 18 November 1989; rehearing denied 29 January 1990; Ward and Clark JJ dissenting. The head matter records that the Watchtower Bible and Tract Society of New York, Inc. appeared as amicus curiae, by Donald T. Ridley of Brooklyn, New York.

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Nota de procedência e verificação

Nota de confiança. The full reported opinion was downloaded from the Caselaw Access Project and read; the quoted sentence, the parties, the date and the amicus entry were confirmed. Justia and CourtListener both refuse automated requests in this environment.

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Notes. The Court decided the case on common-law grounds and expressly declined to decide the First Amendment question on which the Appellate Court had relied.

Consultado em. 19 de setembro de 2026 · Identificador da fonte. src-g94d-ilsc-1989-eg-standard

Publicação primária das Testemunhas de Jeová Verificado

Awake!, “Youths Who Have “Power Beyond What Is Normal””

22 de maio de 1994 · p.15 · par. 59 · Watchtower Bible and Tract Society of New York, Inc.

“The court found that Ernestine was a mature 17-year-old, able to make informed medical decisions; yet, amazingly, the court granted an order allowing blood transfusions. At the hospital two doctors were standing by, transfusion equipment set up, and as soon as the court’s decision came in, the transfusion was forcibly given to Ernestine in spite of her vigorous protests.”

The article’s account of the trial-court stage of the Chicago proceedings reported as In re E.G. It names Dr Stanley Yachnin, Dr Ner Littner and the hospital’s attorney Jane McAtee as witnesses, all three of whom appear in the reported judgments.

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Nota de procedência e verificação

Nota de confiança. Opened on the Watchtower Online Library on 19 September 2026 and the wording, page marker and paragraph confirmed against the article text.

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Notes. The reported judgments record that E.G. received several transfusions over a period of weeks under a guardianship order, not a single forced transfusion.

Consultado em. 19 de setembro de 2026 · Identificador da fonte. src-g94d-gregory-forced-transfusion

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Illinois Supreme Court, “In re E.G., a Minor, 133 Ill. 2d 98 (1989) — the reported facts”

Illinois Appellate Court, First District (3rd Division), “In re E.G., a Minor, 161 Ill. App. 3d 765 (1987), Nos. 87—1791, 87—2065 cons.”

Illinois Supreme Court, “In re E.G., a Minor (The People of the State of Illinois, Appellant, v. E.G., a Minor, Appellee), 133 Ill. 2d 98 (1989), No. 66089”

Awake!, “Youths Who Have “Power Beyond What Is Normal””