The “Ashley Treatment”
You may have heard in the media today about the decision of parents of a severely disabled girl to keep her child-sized in order to give her a better life. The family live in Seattle and the nine-year-old, named Ashley, has the mental ability of a three-month-old baby and cannot walk or talk. Along with hormone doses to limit her growth, Ashley’s parents also opted for surgery to block breast growth and had her uterus and appendix removed.
I’m not at all sure how I feel about this but, if you want to read her parents’ explanation of the treatment and its justification, you can check it out here