Were they right?
Reading the newspaper this morning there was only one story that caught my attention. It's that of a girl called who will never grow up. Ashley has a rare brain condition called , which means that while physically she'll grow up, mentally she'll stay as a young child. In 2004...
...her parents, with the approval of a hospital ethics committee, instructed doctors to remove her uterus, appendix and still forming breasts, then treat her with high doses of oestrogen to stunt her growth.
They say they did this to allow her daughter to have the best quality of life. In his , written in response to criticism he and his family had received over their decision, her father said, "Faced with Ashley's medical reality, as her deeply loving parents, we worked with her doctors to do all we could to provide Ashley with the best possible quality of life."
But were they right to do this to their daughter? And, should this type of decision rest solely on one hospital's ethics committee, or should more people have been consulted, or should the final decision have been made by a court of law? Let us know what you think.
In other news, the British Army's personnel chief, , has pledged to fight for better housing for soldiers and their families following photos received by the ³ÉÈË¿ìÊÖ of barracks and shower blocks with cracked walls, mildew and broken pipes. The government said it accepted accommodation was "not perfect, and that we need to improve it".
Do you have sympathy for armed forces personnel who live in less than favourable conditions? Or do you think they should learn to toughen up a bit and stop whinging? They are soldiers, who will end up fighting in nasty conditions after all.
Australian police have offered a $50'000 (£20'000) reward for the capture of . He's an expert bushman suspected of murdering two young mothers. Naden's managed to evade capture for over a year-and-a-half even though on a number of occasions police thought they'd got him cornered. This is the highest reward the Aussie police have offered since the £8'000 they put up for the capture of in the late 18 hundreds.
There have been fears that this reward will simply bring out the bounty hunters and vigilantes. What do you think? Are reward like this a good way to catch crooks? Or is it just lazy policing?
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