and hildy, if you read my post, i in no way compared these parents to hitler, because I AM NOT DISCUSSING THIS CASE at all, i am discussing the need for setting limits of what is acceptable in a civilized society and my point, as you can clearly see, was to point out that the limits that HITLER might set would differ from limits that the POPE would set [as i am a Catholic, the Pope, to me, is the epitome of good, and hitler the epitome of evil and so i was merely positing both extremes of the spectrum] and they both might set different limits from what you or i might set. but it is ESSENTIAL that this be discussed and aired so that we insure that we don't slide towards the hitler end of the spectrum.
And what exactly are we doing, if not "discussing" it. Did you go to Ashley's website?
IMHO, Hitler would be the 'Send her to the institution' or 'Let her aspirate and die' camp.
Don't know about the Pope, but IMHO, the 'goodest' is what these parents are doing.....the 'Hitlerish' stuff is what we are NOT debating because it's out of site and out of mind.
IOW, the irony is we are debating the good as if it is bad and ignoring the bad because we don't HAVE to debate it.