Ashley is a patient who suffers from "static encephalopathy", a severe brain impairment; that prevents her from developing past the mental age of a three-month-old baby. Her parents requested a controversial treatment to prevent Ashley...
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Ashley is a patient who suffers from "static encephalopathy", a severe brain impairment; that prevents her from developing past the mental age of a three-month-old baby. Her parents requested a controversial treatment to prevent Ashley from physically growing into an adult body. The treatment has been extremely controversial among medical professionals as well as bloggers and the general public.
A society is ultimately judged by how it treats its weakest and most vulnerable members The Ashley Treatment is wrong. Wrong in so many fragging ways. They treat Ashley as if she was a dog. You never take away a person's humanity. You never make them less human. The parents, the doctors had no right to do this. Ashley is nine now. In the next 10 or 20 years they might find a treatment or cure. I mean we can take cells and grow a liver or a heart. There is hope for Ashley, there is hope...
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A story Ashley X and her parents' decision to subject her to
high-dose estrogen, a prophylactic hysterectomy, and breast tissue
reduction surgery was first written about in
the Los Angles Times on Jan. 2. This week many bloggers have chimed in with their opinions.
But experts at the Seattle Children's hospital reviewed, and ultimately approved, this case. The
so-called "Ashley treatment" was described by pediatric...
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After discussions with her doctors, and having been
given the go-ahead by the ethics committee, Ashley underwent a
hysterectomy, breast bud removal and appendectomy in July 2004,
spending four days in hospital.
This was to
protect her from the discomfort of menstrual cramps, which experts did
not believe she could cope with, and pregnancy, should she ever become
the victim of sexual abuse.
Preventing breast growth was also for her physical comfort.
High doses of oestrogen...
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my child does not equal my property I hear this junk time and time again, you can't tell me what to do for my child, how dare you, you don't have the right. well maybe I don't have the right, but children have rights, well children have rights every where except in the United States and Somalia United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child The Convention acknowledges that every child has certain basic rights. It requires that nations act in the best interests of the child...
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... is held and the criminal charges of her guards in Kitchener have been dealt with, few details will be forthcoming about Ashley's treatment in Kitchener. ...
A society is ultimately judged by how it treats its weakest and most vulnerable members The Ashley Treatment is wrong. Wrong in so many fragging ways. They treat Ashley as if she was a dog. You never take away a person's humanity. You never make them less human. The parents, the doctors had no right to do this. Ashley is nine now. In the next 10 or 20 years they might find a treatment or cure. I mean we can take cells and grow a liver or a heart. There is hope for Ashley, there is hope...
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