
                         Roanoke Times
                 Copyright (c) 1995, Landmark Communications, Inc.

DATE: THURSDAY, July 19, 1990                   TAG: 9007190416
SECTION: NATIONAL/INTERNATIONAL                    PAGE: C-5   EDITION: METRO 
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DATELINE: CHICAGO                                LENGTH: Short

JUDGE BLOCKS REQUESTED MARROW TEST

A judge Wednesday refused to order 3-year-old twins to undergo tests that would determine if they could donate bone marrow to their leukemia-stricken half-brother.

The children's father had asked the court to force the twins to have the blood tests and donate bone marrow if they are compatible donors. Tamas Bosze argued that bone-marrow transplantation is the only hope for his 12-year-old son, Jean-Pierre.

But Circuit Judge Monica Reynolds sided with the twins' mother, who said the tests would be an invasion of privacy.

"It is the finding of this court that an order forcing the twins to submit to a blood test and possibly to a bone marrow harvesting at a later date would be an invasion of their constitutional rights of privacy," Reynolds said in a written ruling.

The plight of Jean-Pierre, Bosze's son by another woman, "evokes sympathy from all who've heard the story, but the court has no authority to grant plaintiff's motion," the judge said.

- Associated Press

by CNB