Hospital decides it was wrong to multilate child on parents behalf

[MichaeltheGreat]

She is clearly at least minimally responsive to her environment, so she has some cognitive function, rather than being in a PVS.

[Ogie Oglethorpe]

Time for: Ask Santorum?

[Kuciwalker]

Originally posted by Arrian
Why is this child still alive?

QFT.

[Kuciwalker]

Originally posted by MichaeltheGreat
She is clearly at least minimally responsive to her environment

So are amoebae.

[MichaeltheGreat]

Amoeba aren't human beings, ****wit.

Was that a troll, or are you too dumb to understand the difference?

[Kuciwalker]

Originally posted by MichaeltheGreat
Amoeba aren't human beings, ****wit.

This girl doesn't seem to be either, in any way that counts.

[Kuciwalker]

ISTM we abort fetuses with more mental development than her.

[Ben Kenobi]

Since this girl will never be able to speak, understand language beyond some primitive understanding that mommy and daddy's soft cooing sounds are nice, and never get out of diapers, reproduction outside of rape is a non-issue. Any sick bastard who raped a kid/adult in this condition should be made to dig their own grave with their bare hands, and then dispatched with a shotgun load of rock salt up their ass.

Then why the need for sterilisation? If she isn't going to reproduce, then there is no reason to sterilise her.

The parents' motivation was prevention of menstruation (a sanitary and care issue, plus emotional disturbance to the child, as she has panic reactions and major fits at the sight of blood, and nobody can, or ever will be able, to explain anything to her), and limitation of physical growth so that she will be able to be cared for. (She'll require lifetime care on a 24 hour basis, and who's going to do it if the parents won't or can't?)

So unless the child is small, the child won't be cared for? I agree with you that it would be easier to care for the child if she were small, it would also be easier if the child were not alive at all.

How exactly was she harmed? Loss of "reproductive rights?" God grant that she'd ever have the cognitive function. Staying physically smaller? Not like she was going to make the high school field hockey team or be prom queen. Potty training would be a lifetime accomplishment.

It's not right to stunt the growth of someone and to sterilise them just because it makes caring for them easier. It's like chopping off a leg to make a body fit the coffin. We should be getting a bigger coffin instead of shaping people to fit our desires.

My question is does this work for any other person who isn't mentally handicapped? If it's not right for them, then why is it right for the mentally handicapped folks.

[MichaeltheGreat]

Who's "we?"

[Jon Miller]

Originally posted by Kuciwalker
ISTM we abort fetuses with more mental development than her.

Which is evil. And I do think help shows that the current definition of life as beginning when the baby is living but disconnected from another human is stupid and wrong. (such a definition is also inconsistent)

Jon Miller

[Kuciwalker]

Originally posted by MichaeltheGreat
Who's "we?"

Jews.

[Kuciwalker]

Originally posted by Jon Miller
Which is evil. And I do think help shows that the current definition of life as beginning when the baby is living but disconnected from another human is stupid and wrong. (such a definition is also inconsistent)

Jon Miller

I would be generally OK aborting a fetus with this level of development. We kill plenty of animals that probably have more cognitive functions all the time.

[Last Conformist]

When did cognitive function become the measure of a lifeform's value, anyway?

[Kuciwalker]

Since I assumed that it's a decent measure of sentience.

[Last Conformist]

Okay, when did sentience become the measure of value?