Word: angelically
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...Saving an Angel I was appalled to learn from "Pillow Angel Ethics" [Jan. 22] that the parents of Ashley, a severely brain-damaged 9-year-old girl, mutilated her so that she would be less trouble to care for. Removing her uterus and stunting her growth without knowing what potential she might have had through future medical breakthroughs was merely self-interest disguised as love and devotion. Ashley should be placed under protective services to prevent any more atrocious mistreatment. Don Moss, Executive Director United Cerebral Palsy of Illinois Springfield, Illinois...
...Ashley is not an object, something to touch, snuggle, hug and feed. She shouldn't be reduced to a "pillow angel," a sort of living puppet to cuddle. Her parents, with the complicity of an ethics committee, violated not only Ashley's body but also her soul. Do the disabled have to undergo such procedures for their lives to be considered worth preserving? Everyone needs to be respected and loved for who they are. Ashley's case is a sign of the beginning of the end of a civilization. Pietro Dri Porpetto, Italy...
...three kingdoms in the cosmos: the divine, the satanic, and the human. And while the third one presumably has some sort of influence, it seems to be rather insignificant, especially when Satan decides to make you evil nine months before your birth. “Even as the Angel Gabriel served Jehovah on a momentous night in Nazareth, so too was I there with the Evil One at [Hitler’s] conception,” the narrator says.Throughout the book, Adolf does not become evil as a result of his choices or his environment; he is born evil...
...Saving an Angel I was appalled to learn from "Pillow angel ethics" [Jan. 22] that the parents of Ashley, a severely brain-damaged 9-year-old girl, mutilated her so that she would be less trouble to care for. Removing her uterus and stunting her growth, without knowing what potential she might have had through future medical breakthroughs, was merely self-interest disguised as love and devotion. Ashley should be placed under protective services to prevent any more atrocious mistreatment. Don Moss, Executive Director United Cerebral Palsy of Illinois Springfield, Illinois...
...Ashley is not an object, something to touch, snuggle, hug and feed. She shouldn't be reduced to a "pillow angel," a sort of living puppet to cuddle. Her parents, with the complicity of an ethics committee, violated not only Ashley's body but also her soul. Do the disabled have to undergo such procedures for their lives to be considered worth preserving? Everyone needs to be respected and loved for who they are. Ashley's case is a sign of the beginning of the end of a civilization. Pietro Dri Porpetto, Italy...