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But it's perfectly legal for someone to decide that an adult is still suicidal when they say they are not, having them taken away and locked up without allowing them a phonecall? If that's mental healthcare in the US, I wonder what abduction is like.



Please understand I'm not justifying or defending, only explaining.


I know. Still, there is a difference between them not having consent because they weren't given consent, or because they haven't even asked for it. Maybe not legally, but I morally for sure. (I simply assume that the article isn't leaving out that they asked her, and that she said no.)




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