leema1290 wrote:
static encephalopathy (the little girl's condition) is basically permanent or un-changing brain damage.
What happens if, in the next ?? years, there is a medical breakthrough and brains can be repared. Now this wouldn't suddenly give everyone an IQ of 180, but it would definately enable Ashley to grow and learn.
She'd be slightly annoyed, a few years down the line, to learn what her parents have done to her body.
I'm not saying that what the parents have done is wrong, just lacks hope.
By that same token, what if in the next few years there is a breakthrough at the same time to rebuild organs?
Utimately one can live in hope, but that is a poor substitute for reality. They have made the best desision they could with the information they have now. Praying for some miricle (scientific or otherwise) is a fools course in cases such as this and would most likely end in heartache for all involved.
