Parents defend decision to keep girl a child

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If anybody can point me toward Church teaching on the specific issues discussed here (namely eugenics), I’d be most appreciative:

Stunting growth makes caring easier​

Controversy over radical treatment​

Her name is Ashley X, and she is the little girl who will never grow up.

Until New Year’s Day, not even her first name was known. Ashley was a faceless case study, cited in a paper by two doctors at Seattle Children’s Hospital as they outlined a treatment so radical that it brought with it allegations of “eugenics”, of creating a 21st-century Frankenstein’s monster, of maiming a child for the sake of convenience.

The reason for the controversy is this: three years ago, when Ashley began to display early signs of puberty, her parents instructed doctors to remove her uterus, appendix and still-forming breasts, then treat her with high doses of oestrogen to stunt her growth.

Times of London article

 

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Oops, I found a prior discussion of this topic that didn’t turn up in my first search. It’s here.

I am still reading through the parents’ blog explaining their decision.