The Unthinkable Choice
A "Peter Pan" procedure to keep their disabled daughter small.
In a profoundly controversial case, parents of a severely disabled girl named Ashley consented to a medical treatment to stop her growth and puberty. Dubbed "The Ashley Treatment," it involved a hysterectomy and hormone therapy to keep her child-sized, making her intensive care more manageable. The parents faced global condemnation for the ethically fraught decision they believed was an act of love for their "pillow angel."