Word: ashley
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...only “got through” in the second half, but broke through Dartmouth’s defense, matching the Big Green’s own All-Ivy candidate, Ashley Taylor, down the stretch. It was hard to say which of Hallion’s backbreaking plays stood tallest: her jumper from the free-throw line as the shot clock expired, giving Harvard a one-point lead with 4:45 left? Her steal and lay-up at 1:37, which she followed with another jumper, pushing the Crimson’s lead to five with just more than...
...doctors who agreed to an experimental treatment for a severely disabled girl thought there were clear medical benefits to keeping her small. Autopsy the doctors' argument, and you find that they concluded they could remove Ashley's uterus and breast buds because she'd be better off without them; they could keep her short because, since she'll never have a job or a romance, she'd not suffer the social consequences of smallness. "To those who say she has a right to develop and grow," argues Dr. Daniel Gunther, "Ashley has no concept of these things...
...Looking back on the debate within the Seattle Children's Hospital ethics committee, the doctors admit that there was an instinctive, emotional ingredient in the decision to proceed with hormone treatments and surgery. "I think in the end it was the obvious bond and love that exists between Ashley and her parents," Gunther says, "that convinced them this was the right thing...
...intense feelings-but notes that "visceral reactions are not an argument for or against." This was not a girl who was ever going to grow up, he says. She was only going to grow bigger. "Some disability advocates have suggested that this course of treatment is an abuse of Ashley's ?rights' and an affront to her ?dignity.' This is a mystery to me. Is there more dignity in having to hoist a full-grown body in harness and chains from bed to bath to wheelchair? Ashley will always have the mind of an infant, and now she will able...
...Tuesday, Part 2, critics of Ashley's parents - and her doctors - have their...