{"id":2166,"date":"2007-01-04T13:15:45","date_gmt":"2007-01-04T18:15:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.orthodoxytoday.org\/blog\/2007\/01\/04\/parents-keep-mentally-disabled-daughter-child-size-for-easier-care\/"},"modified":"2007-01-04T13:18:36","modified_gmt":"2007-01-04T18:18:36","slug":"parents-keep-mentally-disabled-daughter-child-size-for-easier-care","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.orthodoxytoday.org\/blog\/2007\/01\/parents-keep-mentally-disabled-daughter-child-size-for-easier-care\/","title":{"rendered":"Parents keep mentally disabled daughter child-size for easier care"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/seattlepi.nwsource.com\/local\/6420AP_WA_Ashleys_Treatment.html?source=mypi\">Seattle Post-Intelligencer<\/a> January 4, 2007 <\/p>\n<p>The parents of a mentally disabled girl have had a Seattle hospital give her treatments to keep her child-size so that she&#8217;ll be easier to care for.<\/p>\n<p>Nine-year-old named Ashley recently completed 2 1\/2 years of treatments.<\/p>\n<p>The treatments included a hysterectomy, the removal of her breast buds, and a course of estrogen.<\/p>\n<p>KING-TV reports the treatment was approved by the ethics board at Children&#8217;s Hospital. Dr. Benjamin Wilfond said the hospital agreed to the treatment to benefit the child.<\/p>\n<p>She has a severe brain impairment called static encephalopathy. She can&#8217;t walk or talk. She&#8217;s fed through a tube and has the developmental ability of a baby.<\/p>\n<p>Ashley&#8217;s parents bring her to Children&#8217;s Hospital every three months so that doctors can monitor her height, weight and estrogen levels.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/seattlepi.nwsource.com\/local\/6420AP_WA_Ashleys_Treatment.html?source=mypi\">Read the rest of this entry>><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Seattle Post-Intelligencer January 4, 2007 The parents of a mentally disabled girl have had a Seattle hospital give her treatments to keep her child-size so that she&#8217;ll be easier to care for. Nine-year-old named Ashley recently completed 2 1\/2 years of treatments. The treatments included a hysterectomy, the removal of her breast buds, and a &#8230; <a title=\"Parents keep mentally disabled daughter child-size for easier care\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.orthodoxytoday.org\/blog\/2007\/01\/parents-keep-mentally-disabled-daughter-child-size-for-easier-care\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about Parents keep mentally disabled daughter child-size for easier care\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1319,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"generate_page_header":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2166","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sanctity-of-life"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.orthodoxytoday.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2166","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.orthodoxytoday.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.orthodoxytoday.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.orthodoxytoday.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1319"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.orthodoxytoday.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2166"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.orthodoxytoday.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2166\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.orthodoxytoday.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2166"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.orthodoxytoday.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2166"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.orthodoxytoday.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2166"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}