Tuesday, February 20, 2007

Ashley's Case: Disability Rights Groups Keep Up the Pressure

Disability rights groups and others have met with the AMA in an attempt to prevent "Ashley's Treatment" from becoming an acceptable practice in cases of children with profound disabilities. This is an important issue. Before another child is given what would normally be considered abusive and non therapeutic medical and surgical therapies, this matter needs to be thoroughly thought out.

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At February 21, 2007 , Blogger Lydia McGrew said...

The link for the AMA meeting article doesn't work.

 
At February 22, 2007 , Blogger Stephen Drake said...

Sorry about disappearing links. It's an unavoidable hazard with AP wire stories.

Here is a working link to the full version of the AP story (shorter versions appeared in many other outlets):

http://www.belleville.com/mld/belleville/news/politics/16740767.htm

Also, the Chicago Defender, a newspaper that is targeted toward the African-American community in Chicago, published this story from a Medill News Service reporter:

http://www.chicagodefender.com/page/local.cfm?ArticleID=8514

 
At February 22, 2007 , Blogger Stephen Drake said...

My apologies *again* - the URL to the AP story was truncated and I didn't notice. Here it is again:

http://www.belleville.com/mld/belleville/news/politics/16740767.htm

 

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