Ashley's Treatment was a Travesty, from Dr Ed Peters

Stories of depravity anger me, but when depravity is portrayed as compassion, I go numb for a while.

It took me some time to grasp the reality that (in 2004, though the story is "breaking" only now) parents in Seattle directed a team of doctors to cut out the breast-buds of their nine-year-old, severally disabled daughter, remove her womb, and pump her full of growth-retarding hormones so that she stays little.