What is this world turning into...
of Ashley X. This is the young girls story...Afflicted with a severe brain impairment known as static encephalopathy, she cannot walk, talk, keep her head up in bed or even swallow food. Her parents argued that “keeping her small” was the best way to improve the quality of her life, not to make life more convenient for them. And this is what her parents decided to do. Because of her small size, the parents say, Ashley will receive more care from people who will be able to carry her: “Ashley will be moved and taken on trips more frequently and will have more exposure to activities and social gatherings ... instead of lying down in her bed staring at TV all day long." I am no doctor but I think this is unethical and selfish of her parents, so called professional parents.
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i read that this morning and i was sorta cringing...I dont agree with their decision but you know what...maybe it was best for them...but it really makes me cringe...I
The minute i finished reading the article this morning, i started to weep. Im not trying to judge her parents or anything but....... I cant even begin to put into words how i feel... to each his own.
Medically, persons with this condition run the risk of being killed by how their spinal column grows and begins to compress the lungs and other vital organs.
I see this issue as a purely medical approach to an issue that has serious ethical considerations an adult body with a 3-month old brain is a danger to itself.
We only have to see how so nervous we get when kids are between crawling and running in a house with stairs and low-lying objects.
There are serious practical issues to do with the expected quality of life and it is easy to be carried away with the emotional outcry without a proper objective analysis.
ok, this is just sick!! science is going crazy