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What a relief to see most of the letters support the child's parents here. What is this knee jerk reaction about "rights?" With rights come responsibilities and this child cannot take on many more responsibilities than breathing. Her family take on her responsibilities. And after them, the tax payers and paid caregivers.
This argument about "rights" is so damn childish. Those doctors and "ethicists" who are questioning the parents' decision need to spend a LONG time personally caring for adults and adolescents in the same condition as Ashley. They need to get their heads out of their books or whatever it is that is giving them these ideas. Because it sure isn't common sense. Then maybe they'd have room to talk.
And please, don't worry about her "sexual pleasure" and "right to reproduce." She already seems to feel love for her family and likes opera; and this overpopulated planet doesn't really need every possible reproducer, brutal as that fact may be.
