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I'm not kidding. This child has no quality of life at all, severely disabled as she is. And to compound her already profound isolation from normalcy, her parents chose to mutilate her (yes, that's right, they MUTILATED her) in order to make it easier for THEM. Think of it: cutting off her breasts, cutting out her female reproductive organs, giving her estrogen to stunt her growth. It's like something a mad scientist would do. And to call her "a pillow angel" invokes images of a stuffed animal or a paperweight. I think it would have been more merciful to outright end her life than to have her exist in such a pitiable, helpless, destroyed state. No doubt her parents consider themselves moral and God-fearing people so the idea of euthanasia would be unthinkable. Instead they resort to major surgery to obliterate her womanhood in order to make her "life" and their lives, more comfortable. And surgeons actually consented to this! This is insane. This is not "love". This is incredible abuse. There should be a law against this cruelty. Yes, euthanasia would be the ultimate act of kindness compared to this.
