
The Battle for Justina Pelletier
A sober, unsettling documentary that turns a family's medical nightmare into a wider argument about who gets to decide.
- Created by
- David Metzler
- Genres
- Documentary
- Tagline
- On which side does the truth lie?
- Overview
- Explore the story of Justina Pelletier, a 14-year-old girl who entered a Boston hospital with a mysterious set of symptoms and quickly became a ward of the state, leaving her family in disbelief. The events that followed inspired an anonymous computer hacker to take matters into his own hands and sparked a debate about parental rights, medical child abuse and the gray areas in b
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- Created by
- David Metzler
- Genres
- Documentary












