[stylist] anybody else watch tonight's law and order, discuss?

[Barbara Hammel]

You think too optimistically.  There's probably at least one who saw it and 
thought it a grand idea.  Personally, I don't watch that show so didn't see 
it.
Barbara


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From: <LoriStay at aol.com>
Sent: Thursday, November 27, 2008 11:51 AM
To: <stylist at nfbnet.org>
Subject: Re: [stylist] anybody else watch tonight's law and order, discuss?

> I think I had heard about this episode.   In reality, I can't see parents
> wanting to do this, as there is always hope for improvement, even in the 
> worst of
> cases.   But I suppose if you were in the position of having to care for a
> retarded child as if he were a baby, it might strike apprehension in you 
> to
> think you would need to do it when he grew larger.
>
> On the other hand the possibility that this behavior might spread to other
> disabilities is quite fearsome.
>
> Lori
>
> In a message dated 11/27/08 12:16:06 AM, n6yr at sunflower.com writes:
>
>
>> dear list members,
>> I'll try to find an NBC summary of tonight's plot. but in tonight's
>> episode a couple with a severely disabled child planned to have their
>> child surgically and hormonally prevented from growing up. that, so
>> that she would be easier to care for, and to avoid certain complications.
>>
>> the Judge, and Jack Maccoy (now the D.A.) held that it was not the
>> state's place to condemn this behavior. The judge cited the
>> Fourteenth Amendment. and the assistant D.A. named Cutter, said (I
>> think rightly so) that because the daughter is disabled did not mean
>> that the parents had the right to maim their daughter he was
>> overruled. my wife was in tears at the end, and I was shouting at
>> the TV, at the end.
>>
>> we've discussed whether to talk about this episode with the national
>> NFB, and whether to call local affiliates of NBC.
>>
>> so, I just wondered if any of you saw it too.
>> thanks,
>>
>> jc
>>
>> Jim Canaday M.A.
>> Lawrence, KS
>>
>>
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