Michigan May Force Toddler's Surgery

By JAMES PRICHARD
Associated Press Writer

Surgeons say 2-year-old Noshin Hoque will probably die within a year or two unless the tumor growing deep in her brain is removed. But the operation itself will probably kill her or leave her blind or paralyzed.

Given those odds, the little girl's parents, Jalal and Shaheda Hoque, decided not to let doctors operate, and instead started taking her to a Montreal homeopath for herbal and nutritional treatments in hopes of curing her.

But now Michigan prosecutors have taken the Hoques to court to force them to go ahead with the surgery in a case that revisits the question of who should decide what is best for the child when it comes to lifesaving medical treatment.

``There's no other outcome but death, without surgery,'' said David Gorcyca, prosecutor in suburban Detroit's Oakland County. ``I think if I'm a parent given a 30 percent fighting chance of survival, I'm taking that shot every time.'' Read Entire Article

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