More on Ashley's Treatment

From a Slate piece:

That's why they want to make Ashley easier to bear. "The only additional care givers entrusted to Ashley's care are her two Grandmothers, who find Ashley's weight even more difficult to manage," the parents plead. But once you start changing people's bodies to make them easier to bear, it's that much easier to look at their caregivers the same way. So the bearers became burdens, and we lightened them. And they lived happily ever after.

Which reminds me of something Cardinal O'Malley recently said:

As the populations of the Western world age, we will see that the generation of parents that aborted their own children, will be euthanized by the children who survived.

Thanks to alert reader Therese for the Slate link.

Comments

[PeterTerp]

So why can't they get physically stronger caregivers?

Why can't some construct a mechanical bed that will make her easier to lift?

Heck, if we're going to pump a little girl full of hormones, why can't we just pump mom and dad full of steroids so they can lift her easier? Is it wrong to chemically alter the parents' bodies, but not the body of a mentally handicapped girl?

What ever happened to ingenuity, people?

It's like when population growth people complain that rush hour traffic jams will be even worse in the future if there were more drivers on the road...so we should limit reproduction (rather than improve our transportation systems or the create more cottage industries).

Can't anybody come up with a better solution to this problem?

Our society is suffering from a devastating lack of imagination.