More linkage on Ashley
Time magazine: "Pillow Angel Ethics, Part 2," Part 1 here.
DREDF statement (Disability Rights Education & Defense Fund)
Commentary at The Independent: "The moral line in medicine shifts once again."
Nufsaid at Ramblings: Mom of disabled son weighs in.
DreamMom: Parts 1 and 2 on the Ashley Treatment -- Another Mom of disabled child responds.
Brownfemipower at Women of Color -- Lengthy comments.
Women's Space/The Margins -- Again, long comment thread.
And with huge comment threads, Alas, A Blog: Here and here.
Did I miss someone? Add the link in comments.
Updated:
Sharon at The Voyage writes here and here.
Elmindreda of Random Reminiscing Ramblings writes "Dear Ableist."
6 comments:
Elmindreda in Sweden just posted overnight:
http://elmindreda.blogspot.com/2007/01/dear-ableist.html
I've written a couple of posts about this. There are a few good comments, and a few ridiculous ones on my 1st post.
I've been surprised and upset to see that people I would have considered like me, ie lefty liberal types, have no idea when it comes to disability advocacy.
Wow, I'm just so proud to say I used to work at DREDF! Excellent stuff.
Did anyone notice the last paragraph of the Time article in PIllow Angel part 2?
I find it very disturbing. In particular the line about killing the sickest newborns.
For the lazy, here's the paragraph Amethyst refers to:
Those troubled by the Ashley treatment as a medical fix for a larger social problem are watching the direction that Britain is taking. The Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynecology has proposed that doctors be allowed to kill the sickest infants — which is already legal in the Netherlands. "A very disabled child can mean a disabled family," the college wrote to the Nuffield Council on Bioethics, and urged that they "think more radically about non-resuscitation, withdrawal of treatment decisions... and active euthanasia, as they are ways of widening the management options available to the sickest of newborns." At least in Ashley's case, however much the doctors debated the proper "management options," they all agreed that her life had a value worth fighting to preserve. But as a standard, that's a pretty low bar to set.
Thank you for posting the paragraph, when I tried. It wouldn't let me post.
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