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Arguments Against Experimental Surgery

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Experimental Surgery is one of the many things people debate about. The good things and both the bad things even out in this case. It can go from the surgery to being super successful to the surgery end up super illegal. Especially if it’s done on children with mental and physical disabilities. Even though something that is used is illegal it could tremendously help a child’s future with disabilities or not. With many new controversial medical procedures doctors have been able to figure out how to stop the growth in children’s bones with physical disabilities by having the children go through courses of hormonal and surgical treatments to keep them small (http://www.theguardian.com/society/2012/mar/16/ashley-treatment-ericas-story). In 2004, …show more content…

Another young girl named Erica had what is known as the ‘Ashley treatment’ (Things done to Ashley above) done to her. Erica’s Mom claims,”Sometimes she is fussy around me like a baby if I 'm not holding her. She lies in our laps and sucks her thumb. If she was 50lb heavier we probably couldn 't do that. Even with a 70lb child, putting her in the bathtub is difficult. We can pick her up and put her on the couch. She 's not light, but it 's managable. If she weighed 140 or 150lbs, there 's no way." The procedure went very well for Erica and she is now fourteen-years old but will forever remain in a nine-year-old 's body. Erica will not develop breast or get her period. "The hysterectomy was the one bit I really wanted to do," says Erica’s Mom,"We were adamant that she didn 't deserve to deal with a period all her life, because of the pain and the hormonal changes. She is not verbal and can 't tell us what hurts." (http://www.theguardian.com/society/2012/mar/16/ashley-treatment-ericas-story) Some experimental surgery can also have many unknown future side effects or even worse long-term effects. Like in the book, “Flowers For Algernon”, by Daniel Keyes, a man named Charlie has mental disabilities and cannot read or write, but with experimental surgery he becomes a genius! Overtime though he eventually goes back to his normal state of idiocy and maybe becomes even less intelligent than before the surgery. That is a very big crucial and scary thing to think about if that were to happen to someone in

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