I don't think a person who would sexually assault a child - developmentally disabled or otherwise - would take the possibility of pregnancy into consideration.
There is always some risk of sexual assault for just about anyone, but as irene_adler pointed out, there's a particularly high risk for incapacitated women, especially if they are in some sort of institution. Ashley's treatment cuts that risk significantly.
I'm also rolling my eyes at people who say that the right to sexuality should be paramount in every situation. I think there are a very few cases in which that isn't true, and this is one of them. After all, the purpose of all rights is to promote both life and quality of life: Ashley's quality of life will be better for this treatment. As I said before, though, the same would not be true of a person with mental illness or mild developmental problems, and I don't advocate that it should be applied universally even to people like Ashley.
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Date: 2007-01-09 09:52 pm (UTC)There is always some risk of sexual assault for just about anyone, but as
I'm also rolling my eyes at people who say that the right to sexuality should be paramount in every situation. I think there are a very few cases in which that isn't true, and this is one of them. After all, the purpose of all rights is to promote both life and quality of life: Ashley's quality of life will be better for this treatment. As I said before, though, the same would not be true of a person with mental illness or mild developmental problems, and I don't advocate that it should be applied universally even to people like Ashley.