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Posted on 11/01/2006 4:38:55 PM PST by Piefloater
This is a lot closer to reality than one might expect. In the case of our own son, while temporarily in a well known facility, something like that could have happened. Doctors proposed to us a spinal implantation which would correct the scoliosis naturally occurring in such handicaps. It would amount to a rigid rod attached to the spine. They assured us it would make our son look more normal, but warned only 50% survived. We told them to stuff their operation. Our son's room mate who was in similar straits was a happy, smiling kid, a joy to be around. But his parents acquiesced and he got the operation. He never smiled again, died a few months later in pain.
What nonsense. You sound like a Democrat arguing for just one more little tax increase.
Just put a plastic bag over her head and tape it shut. Why go about something half-assed?
That's an ad hominem.
Do you say the same thing to persons who claim that parents should sacrifice a bit more to care for difficult children rather than commit infanticide? If not, why not?
-A8
Puberty is not pretty thing in girls of any range of mental retardation. On your logic, we should therefore give them all hysterectomies.
Personally I dont think that is a bad idea.
That’s like saying that if a person lost one leg, then it is ethically permissible to remove the other.
If it is a management issue and the poor soul doesnt realize what is going on, what difference would it make?
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