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Thursday, January 4, 2007

BBC article on 9 year old Ashley

I shudder as I read this quote :

""The oestrogen treatment is not what is grotesque here. Rather, it is the prospect of having a full-grown and fertile woman endowed with the mind of a baby."

So where does this end? Do we maim all kids with cognitive limitations by keeping them frozen in childhood?

Since when is it OK to say that women with cognitive disabilities are "grotesque'?

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

This makes me sick to my stomach. I think of my friends with cognitive disabilities and just want to cry. How dare people make such statements and treat people with disabilities as property. This child is a human being, not their pet. Animals get treated like this, not human beings.