The Ashley treatment: practical, but ethical?- Hitler times – medical experiments- Sister Kennedy – lobotomy- Potential serious consequences that can arise from irresponsible or criminal medical experiments. While we must be vigilant to protect innocent victims from such testing, we cannot let this stifle our duty to continue to make advances in healthcare and improve patients' lives. – Moral obligations generally should not be so demanding that one has to make enormous sacrifices to satisfy them (Liao, Savulescu, & Sheehan, 2007). - Beauchamp and Childress – ethical principles of autonomy – One must ask whether a treatment is practical, does that make it ethical?'Hope to keep her as comfortable as possible''"The Ashley Treatment" included high-dose estrogen therapy, a hysterectomy and removal of the breast lump. Ashley had a normal birth, but her mental and motor skills did not develop ("The Ashley Treatment," 2007). Ashley was diagnosed with encephalopathy of unknown etiology. . This meant that he would forever have the mental capacity of a newborn, although he had no physical deformities. Although she is awake and alert, Ashley cannot walk, talk, sit or even support her head. Ashley is primarily cared for by her parents and grandparents in their home. Ashley's parents say they became concerned when she developed precocious puberty at age six. They talked to their doctor at Seattle Children's Hospital about the possibility of slowing her growth process to minimize her height and weight as an adult. They also discussed two other treatments that they believed would improve the quality of Ashley's adult life. One was a hysterectomy, which would prevent Ashley from experiencing menstrual cramps and would prevent… half of the paper… from taking care of her activities of daily living: feeding her, caring for her. However, her mother had no idea about her condition and how to help her take care of herself. I personally took her to school and spoke to the teachers who advised her to enroll in a special needs school, she had fallen behind in her lessons and this was affecting her mentally and emotionally. She was visually impaired and no one in the family knew it until they took a vision test that was right for her. She is now 22 and it amazes me to see how she has flourished. A young girl who used to be glued to the television, watching cartoons and the like, is now on her iPad watching YouTube videos, face to face with friends and family. When our grandmother died a few years ago, she took it upon herself to console everyone. If his growth had been stunted, he wouldn't be the person he is now.