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What is your opinion of medically stopping the growth process of severely disabled patients?
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December 26th, 2009
A case has made the news of parents who, with extensive medical assistance including surgery, stunted the growth and development of their daughter so they could care for with more ease than if she reached physical maturity and size.
Their daughter “was born brain-damaged, with a condition described as static encephalopathy, or cerebral palsy” described as having the mental capacity of a 6 month old.
Here is an article about it.
Along with your opinion on this one case, does it present a disturbing, or breakthrough, precedent?
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