How do hospitals deal with ethical issues like Ashley Treatment?
When it comes to medical issues, ethics committees at leading children's hospitals exist to scrutinize issues like the Ashley treatment. The ethics committees have medical and ethical training and must uphold the child's interest and wellbeing in their decision.
What is the objective of Ashley Treatment?
EP: In 2007, you said that the objective of the Ashley treatment, which you devised together with specialist doctors from Seattle's children's hospital, was to improve Ashley's own quality of life, with no consideration paid to your own needs as her parents caring for her.
How did Ashley's Treatment change her personality?
The treatment accelerated Ashley's puberty rather than inhibit it. In girls, puberty is caused by a surge of estrogen; the Ashley treatment added estrogen so that Ashley's growth would conclude at an earlier age and a smaller size. Today at 14, Ashley is still an infant cognitively, as she was at birth and five years ago.
When did Adad announce the treatment for Ashley?
AD: We didn't exactly announce the treatment. Ashley's endocrinologist, Dr Gunther, wrote about her in the Journal of Pediatrics in October 2006. The media picked up the story, and the controversy exploded, which motivated us to tell Ashley's story in January 2007 through a blog, now at pillowangel.org.
Why is Ashley treatment unethical?
Opponents argue that the treatment and surgery are nonbeneficial because Ashley is not suffering, the treatment is untested and has potential adverse effects, and the surgery is unnecessary because there are viable options. Physicians are ethically bound to do no harm to a patient.
Why is ethical treatment of animals important?
Thus, the humane care and use of animals used for research, testing and training is considered a moral obligation. There are also scientific reasons why animals used for research should be treated humanely. Pain and stress can drastically alter the physiologic state of animals.
What is ethical treatment of subjects in psychology?
Ethics refers to the correct rules of conduct necessary when carrying out research. We have a moral responsibility to protect research participants from harm. However important the issue under investigation psychologists need to remember that they have a duty to respect the rights and dignity of research participants.
Why is animal cruelty an ethical issue?
Animal rights teach us that certain things are wrong as a matter of principle, that there are some things that it is morally wrong to do to animals. Human beings must not do those things, no matter what the cost to humanity of not doing them. Human beings must not do those things, even if they do them in a humane way.
When did the Ashley treatment become public?
EP: Let's get back to your family's experience with the Ashley treatment. When it first became public in 2007 you must have been aware that it would be controversial, but were you prepared for just how explosive it was?
What was the objective of the Ashley treatment?
EP: In 2007, you said that the objective of the Ashley treatment, which you devised together with specialist doctors from Seattle's children's hospital, was to improve Ashley's own quality of life, with no consideration paid to your own needs as her parents caring for her. You believed that by attenuating her growth, avoiding the onset of puberty and removing her breast buds she would be physically more comfortable.
Why did Ashley get her puberty?
In girls, puberty is caused by a surge of estrogen; the Ashley treatment added estrogen so that Ashley's growth would conclude at an earlier age and a smaller size. Today at 14, Ashley is still an infant cognitively, as she was at birth and five years ago.
How tall is Ashley's sister?
As a contrast, Ashley's 12-year-old sister is 66in (168cm) tall and 120 lbs (55kg) and still growing. Ashley's health is also stable, she is on a single prescription drug for reflux.
Why are there ethics committees in hospitals?
When it comes to medical issues, ethics committees at leading children's hospitals exist to scrutinize issues like the Ashley treatment. The ethics committees have medical and ethical training and must uphold the child's interest and wellbeing in their decision. Their decisions are particular to each specific case.
What is Ashley treatment?
EP: It has been five years since you went public with what you called the "Ashley treatment", the use of medical procedures to attenuate your daughter's growth and inhibit the onset of puberty. The treatment was, unsurprisingly, massively controversial.
How much did Ashley's surgery cost?
There are cases were families had to go to other countries and to other states. Ashley's treatment cost under $40k, which was mostly due to the surgery and was fully covered by our insurance. As far as we know the other treatments are covered by insurance as well.
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Overview
People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals is an American animal rights organization based in Norfolk, Virginia, and led by Ingrid Newkirk, its international president. The nonprofit corporation claims that PETA entities have more than 9 million members and supporters globally. Its slogan is "Animals are not ours to experiment on, eat, wear, use for entertainment, or abuse in any other way."
History
Ingrid Newkirk was born in England in 1949, and raised in Hertfordshire and later New Delhi, India, where her father—a navigational engineer—was stationed. Newkirk, now an atheist, was educated in a convent, the only British girl there. She moved to the United States as a teenager, first studying to become a stockbroker, but after taking some abandoned kittens to an animal shelter in 1…
Philosophy and activism
PETA is an animal rights organization that opposes speciesism, and the abuse of animals in any way, such as for food, clothing, entertainment, or research. PETA lobbies government agencies to impose fines and/or confiscate animals when animal-welfare legislation has been violated, promotes a vegan lifestyle, tries to reform practices on factory farms and in slaughterhouses, sends unde…
Positions
Newkirk is outspoken in her support of direct action, writing that no movement for social change has ever succeeded without what she calls the militarism component: "Thinkers may prepare revolutions, but bandits must carry them out." Newkirk is a strong supporter of direct action that removes animals from laboratories and other facilities: "When I hear of anyone walking into a lab and …
PETA India
PETA India was founded in 2000 and is based in Mumbai, India. It focuses on issues about animals in laboratories, the food industry, the leather trade, and entertainment."
PETA and NGO Animal Rahat, authorized by Animal Welfare Board of India, participated in a nine-month investigation of 16 circuses in India. After it was revealed that "animals used in circuses were subjected to chronic confinement, physical abuse, and psychological torment", AWBI in 20…
Domain name disputes
In February 1995, a parody website calling itself "People Eating Tasty Animals" registered the domain name "peta.org". PETA sued, claiming trademark violation, and won the suit in 2001; the domain is currently owned by PETA. While still engaged in legal proceedings over "peta.org", PETA themselves registered the domains "ringlingbrothers.com" and "voguemagazine.com", using the sites to accuse Ringling Brothers and Barnum & Bailey Circus and Vogue of animal cruelty. PETA l…
Position within the animal rights movement
The failure of PETA to condemn the Animal Liberation Front is a common complaint by other animal rights activists and groups.
The more radical activists say the group has lost touch with its grass-roots soldiers, is soft on the idea of animal rights, that it should stop the media stunts and their use of nudity, and stop "hogging the spotlight at the expense of its allies in the movement".
See also
• Direct Action Everywhere
• European Vegetarian Union
• International Vegetarian Union
• Mercy for Animals