Thread: Is this a parental right?
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Old 01-09-2007, 04:30 AM   #5 (permalink)
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Ethical questions??? Let us see, if these parents decide that for issues of quality of life to instead allow this child to be starved to death, no one would have a problem with it.

However, in this case, the parents valued life and instead hope to see their child live. Yes, what they did makes their life easier. However, it also helps Ashley. It will prevent her from getting soars, and truthfully we do not know what kind of life she has but she is alive.

So once again let us review, kill the patient - no ethical dilemma. Allow the patient to live - ethical dilemma.

Hmmmmmmmm.

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