Christine
Kitzler's surgery had been scheduled to take place in New Hope,
Pennsylvania, on Tuesday, Sept. 1, but on Monday her parents filed an
emergency petition in a Bucks County courthouse in suburban Philadelphia
to stop the surgery.
Bucks
County Judge C. Theodore Fritsch Jr. initially granted a temporary
stay. Kitzler, who lives in Myrtle Beach, South Carolina, was in a
pre-operative appointment when she received news the surgery was halted,
her lawyer, Angela Giampolo, said.
Parents
Klaus and Ingrid Kitzler said their adult child was incompetent,
demanded a guardian be appointed and sought to enjoin doctors from
operating on her, Giampolo said.
The
real issue was the particular nature of the surgery, rather than
competency, according to Giampolo.But on Wednesday the judge threw out
the petition, rejecting their arguments about incompetence, Giampolo
said.
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