Ashley was diagnosed with severe brain damage shortly after birth, and her condition has left her in an infant state, unable to sit up, roll over, hold a toy or walk or talk.
“People concerned with the rights of individuals with disabilities still have a lot of questions...”said Curt Decker, National Disability Rights Network executive director. “... I know the entire disability community will be carefully watching the implementation of this agreement.”
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Yes, you are right. The parents, faced with a tragedy, are dealing with it the best way they know how. It is a disgrace that they are being second-guessed, when a less committed parent would have let her die.
The “quality of life” crowd would question if she should even be alive.
I agree with you. The parents are trying to act in the best interests of the family, not only themselves, but their daughter. It appears that they did put some thought behind this.
I will preface this that IN THIS PARTICULAR CASE, I believe the parents made a legitimate decision and should have been allowed to do so. I would not say EVERY case parents ALWAYS should be able to do whatever without anyone revieweing it.
The factors for me are is that these parents have a severely brain damaged young child, and they are thinking about how they are going to be able to care for her as they age and lose functionality themselves. They want to be able to take care of her, she is not going to have a normal life in her condition, she has no prospects of a normal marriage and family life of her own in her condition, they will be the primary caregivers of her as long as they are all alive, and while it is an unorthodox move, I think it fits in with them and their desire to be able to care for her as long as she is alive. They don’t want to dump her on anyone.
Good post...........
These are the same m***********s that push the concept of deaf couples denying operations that would save their children's hearing, in an effort to "preserve a hearing impaired lifestyle."