The couple emphasised their love for their daughter and said the amount of criticism their choice of treatment attracted had surprised them. George Dvorsky, a member of the Board of Directors for the Institute for Ethics and Emerging Technologies said: “If the concern has something to do with the girl’s dignity being violated, then I have to protest by arguing that the girl lacks the cognitive capacity to experience any sense of indignity. “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.” I hate to say it, but this is very much like the Schiavo case.  Much of the discourse seems to be centered around not knowing (sometimes willfully) the facts of the situation, and when those facts are made clear much of the debate is rendered moot (and rather offensive).

Ian Mathers @ January 5th, 2007 9:26 am

Indeed. And part of the problem with the whole thing is that one is somehow made to feel as if you must have an opinion on it. Hence why I liked Moll’s post, which talks about the case without the compulsion to make a decision on it.

voyou @ January 6th, 2007 5:34 pm