I am used to controversy, but sometimes you do get surprises. The hot button issues of bioethics – abortion, euthanasia, stem cell research, genetically modified foods – always generate passionate controversy, but I never imagined that chemotherapy for a 17-year-old girl would interest anyone.
I was quite wrong. I have hardly ever received so many comments on an issue.
Abstract:
It’s more important for a child to live to become an autonomous adult than to die to defend her mother’s prejudices against medicine.