Ashley's Treatment

[MightyMightyKirk]

I'm not sure if this really belongs in politics...but I thought it was a little too serious for the general forum. I am curious to hear your opinions on this:

Ashley's Treatment

Pleas read it in it's enirety before commenting.

[qygibo]

I remember seeing this on Nancy Grace (damn harpy) and quite honestly, mean as it may be, I don't see a problem with the parents doing that. This is a person who will be forever stuck a child from the looks of it, based on motor and neurological function (I'm aware of the pun, though). In a case like this, the parents, who are the everyday caregivers and who did probably convene with doctors before coming to the conclusion, would be the ones to make such a decision.

[troubles1]

I am a parent of two children and can't imagine having to make such a decision. I feel very sorry for any child that is born with any disability. What the parents did here is obviously in the best interest of there daughter. If a parent is not in there situation they have no right to make cruel accusations about there actions, Is is a shame that there are people who don't know how to mind there own business and not try and intervene into other peoples lives.

[Elfer]

Mental growth stopped, only makes sense to stop the physical growth as well.

Do you really think a person with the mind of a baby and the body of a fully grown woman would really be better off?

[MortifiedPenguins]

Sucks for the kid.

But, eh thats life.

[MightyMightyKirk]

I'm actually on the fence on this one, but I'll play devil's advocate here: Don't you think that this is a violation of her rights? We don't know what she is thinking...we can only tell so much medically when it comes to the brain...Either way, what a decision.

[SmilezRoyale]

At 1/9/07 09:45 PM, MightyMightyKirk wrote: I'm actually on the fence on this one, but I'll play devil's advocate here: Don't you think that this is a violation of her rights? We don't know what she is thinking...we can only tell so much medically when it comes to the brain...Either way, what a decision.

It would be just as wrong to asume that she WANTS to be a woman, there's a 50 50 chance, and as far as we know scientifically, a baby, or somone with the intelligence of a baby is incapable of conceiving that kind of thing, not to mention make a descision about it. Also, the parents, as legal gaurdians are considered [in most civilizations, including our own] to be more apt at making the appropriate descion.

[Der-Ubermensch]

It's plain to see that the parents have only the child's well being in mind. Who are we, free of the pain and emotional suffering brought on by such a situation, entitled to judge those who are with such severity? The harm is done; she was born into the world as she is and fully entitled to her dignity and fundamental human rights.

The innocence of childhood should be allowed to remain within her. A fully developed body would not only be a physical discomfort but a taboo overshadowing the purity of her mind and heart.