Some NGOs in Maldives are supposedly advocating for the disabled and the vulnerable. This might be a misconception and a disguise. They should be learning from organizations like
Justice For All activists in safeguarding the disable and the vulnerable in our community. Recently i saw a comment in a FaceBook discussion forum (
Child Abuse Watch Maldives) where Afiya, a founder member of the NGO Care Society, was defending her decision to circumcise a disabled boy. I want to ask her whether she would defend a decision to remove a womb of a girl considering a disability in a girl in the name of making life better for a disabled girl. More or so , without their consent.
A US court recently went against such intervention. Doctors recommended another alternative than mutilation. An unnecessary procedure has been stopped from being performed.
A mother’s wish to have her disabled teenage daughter’s womb removed looks set to become the next landmark case in the courts to test the ethics of medical intervention where patients cannot decide for themselves.
Disability groups and academics have been united in urging caution in the case in which Alison Thorpe wants doctors to perform a hysterectomy on her daughter Katie,15, who has cerebral palsy and the mental capacity of an 18-month-old child.
Times Online report can be read from here. And you can read a mothers argument of why she wanted her disabled daughters womb to be removed.
I wonder if in Maldives such intervention is taking place in the name of making things better for disabled children. This blog vehemently opposes such intervention even from the very beginning starting from the case of little Ashley.
I’ve read the discussion on facebook and I really do useful facts from both sides. This was something I’ve been quite confused about. But the discussion lacks a religious view. But i guess the decision is always made by parents and this does not mean the parents are abusing their children’s right dho.
I agree with Yasiph.
I think what MH is talking about goes beyonnd rights.
Yasiph, why don’t you go and ask a mullah. They all would say it is a must cos muhammads thoothu kolhu was also cut.
‘Testicles’ why don’t u be a Man n admit to us tat ur really an ovary havin an identity crisis…..or was ur lille ‘bean’ sliced n diced lik a boys thoothu kolhu! Omg!