The parents of a 9-year old Ashley who had her uterus and breasts tissue removed plus given large doses of hormones to halt her growth so they could care for her better...
2007-01-08 05:13:16 · 8 answers · asked by Anonymous in Health ➔ Diseases & Conditions ➔ Other - Diseases
Ashley’s parents feel they can better care for little Ashley if she remains at a manageable size. They often refer to Ashley has their “pillow child.” The parents feel if Ashley remains at her current weight of 65lbs instead of reaching her adult weight of 115lbs, it would be much easier for them to include her in typical family activities, car trips, feeding, bathing and simply caring for her. It will also reduce the chances of her developing bedsores, and other diseases that is usually associated with bed-ridden patients. Also she will not have to experience the discomfort of pending womanhood such as her menstrual or worry about developing breast cancer.
Ashley’s parents stated, “Unless you are living the experience you have no clue what it is like to be the bedridden child or their caregivers. Caring for Ashley involves hard work and continual work, {but} she is a blessing not a burden.”
2007-01-08 05:17:53 · update #1
http://blog.360.yahoo.com/blog-j.GVcRI5fr.N3YUTUdbbUg--?p=1343#comment
2007-01-08 05:19:28 · update #2
I agree with the decision of the parents.
The child would have never developed like her peers and there were no corrective surgeries to "heal" her or correct her birth abnormality.
The parents did this out of love for their daughter, knowing that they were going to be getting older and caring for her would get increasingly more difficult as the years went by.
What would be more cruel? Altering their child to ensure that she would get to live at home, with her family...OR...sending her to a permanent care home years down the road into the care of total strangers?
I think what they did was preserve her dignity and allow her to remain in her home.
Her uterus was removed because the particular types of hormones they gave her can cause uterine cancer.
Not only do I think it's ethical to have had this procedure done, I think it was the only decent and humane thing to do.
2007-01-08 05:30:47 · answer #1 · answered by Chick-A- Deedle 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I'm completely split on the ethics. I can see why her parents did it. They could care for her much easier. Having her breasts and uterus removed because her family has a hisotry of breast cancer and it would be difficult for her to go through her period. If you think abotu it, it's tough enough for a normal person to handle breast cancer and their period.
On the other side what are the side effects of all this going ot be for her. I'm thinking her parents should have considered alternatives like nursing homes. Or birth control to stop her period. etc.
2007-01-08 05:20:56 · answer #2 · answered by christigmc 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
a big NO! that will be deprivation to ashley and convenience to the parents. im sorry to say but i think what you are doing is considered to be a "killing me softly" situation. as what you said she is a blessing, why did you not give her the chance to live and grow like a normal person? i have a friend who has a mentally retarded child. i can see how much effort she exerts to raise the child. the child is as sweet as he can be, greets everybody at school, sits and waits quietly at Burger King while waiting for his mom who's ordering food, and never an impulsive and violent boy. i think it's on how the parents rears the child.
2007-01-11 17:48:19 · answer #3 · answered by shai_lance 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
an excellent question --however it has dismal answers -- and that is facts of life. we can not and should not answer this question as long as we are not "parents" to that child. Yes, legislators could legislate points of actions and rules and regulations on how to deal with similar and unique situations but -- it should be left to the closest people to the said child to make the final and most difficult decisions. I do not rest my case, nor the legislators and hospitals and all concerned have come up with a unique and acceptable answer/s to society. It is one of those unique situation where "we want to play G-d" with the Creation. I do not have an exact answer but hope my comments would help.
2016-05-23 11:09:06 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Say what? I have never heard of such a thing and any surgeon who did this should be locked up.....WITH the parents.
Are you sure about this?
2007-01-08 05:17:03 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Wouldn't care to make a judgment call on something so close to the heart for it is your heart that leads you.
2007-01-08 14:34:51 · answer #6 · answered by DEE 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
That sounds crazy...
I have heard of depo-provera and other forms of menstruation-stopping medication for severely disabled women, but this sounds absurd and completely illegal.
2007-01-08 05:17:03 · answer #7 · answered by P_P_K 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I saw an article on this, those parents should be locked up, thats so wrong.
2007-01-08 05:20:50 · answer #8 · answered by spawn_of_cookie_monster 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋