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Jan 08, 2007 18:49

can someone give me a re-cap of what people (that I generally know) are saying about Ashley, the "pillow angel"?

honestly, it creeps the hell out of me. and I am not sure why. I can see legitimate arguments on both sides. it makes me glad I will not be a father, because decisions like that...I'm not sure I could make.

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chrispina January 9 2007, 04:23:16 UTC

i'm a little horrified by it, but i can understand their reasons for doing it. surgery can be pretty painful and the recovery can take a long time. i think it would be better if they just did the less invasive and painful things like hormone therapy. hell... i don't even believe in declawing a cat, and i hate cats.

brianblades January 9 2007, 04:47:37 UTC

thanks for sharing. I was wondering what a mother would say...I am not looking for validation or conflict, just..curious as to what others think. plus I value the opinions of people I know more than random strangers. they'll give just about anyone a blog these days.

chrispina January 9 2007, 04:57:53 UTC

weird. i'm working right now and the task that just came up is "ashley treatment" so now i get to go research it.

brianblades January 9 2007, 05:05:43 UTC

yuck. have fun with that? :|

chrispina January 9 2007, 07:35:44 UTC

after reading more about it, it looks like the surgeries were related to the hormone therapy. estrogen therapy carries a high risk of breast cancer and problems with menstruation. i hate that it's such a permanent decision...

i can't fault them for doing it, but it still creeps me out.

brianblades January 10 2007, 01:26:58 UTC

that makes total sense, then. well, as much as any of this does. it's pretty much an all-or-nothing approach. it'd be inhumane (in my view) to force estrogen therapy that could complicate things down the line and NOT do as much preemptively as possible.

they gave me -2- blogs... jesuismoi January 9 2007, 14:15:46 UTC

I get the hysterectomy, I really do. This is b/c if I didn't want kids eventually I would have one to stop the horrible cramps.

I think the breast buds was completely unwarranted and confuses sex and rape/abuse. Rape/abuse, especially of someone who is mentally incompetent, is NOT about sexuality and the size of her breasts. It is all about power and some other sick things. (If there was a correlation between being a victim of rape/assault and breast size someone would have picked up on it by now.) In fact, removing her breasts might make her MORE likely to be victimized by some types of predators. Food for thought there.

I think the whole thing shows that the parents are SCARED of her developing sexually physically.

Re: they gave me -2- blogs... brianblades January 10 2007, 01:31:15 UTC

as I understand it, the breast buds thing was to prevent sexual development and physical maturation. I think they are scared of her developing sexually, but not for the reasons you suggest...the rape thing is probably very, very low on their list of reasons why.

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