(October 7, 2016 at 1:07 pm)Jesster Wrote:(October 7, 2016 at 1:06 pm)Catholic_Lady Wrote: I never said I'd be "ok" with it. I still wouldn't think it was right. But I wouldn't judge the parents as bad parents or horrible people for it if they had their own honest reasons and did what they truly thought was best for their child. Maybe their family has a history of illnesses regarding that part of the body or something, I dunno. I wouldn't judge them, is all I said.
Okay, I will rephrase my question then. Should it be legal for parents to choose to remove their healthy infant's appendix?
I don't know anything about it to say. I don't even know if it is or is not legal. But if it was legal, and if it was something that was medically practiced as circumcision is, and parents chose to do it for the reason that they thought it'd be best for their child, I wouldn't judge them as bad parents or horrible people for it.
Though I still feel like we're comparing apples to oranges here. At least to me, there's a difference between major surgery and cutting off a couple centimeters of skin. Obviously a line is drawn somewhere between what is and is not reasonable, otherwise everything can become a slippery slope.
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