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Alison and Katie Thorpe |
28 Jan 2008 |
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Who should decide whether it is right to perform a hysterectomy on a severely disabled teenager?
Katie Thorpe is the 15-year-old girl with cerebral palsy who hit the headlines last year when her mother, Alison asked a hospital in Essex to give her a daughter a hysterectomy. She wanted Katie to avoid the "pain, discomfort and indignity" of menstruation. But the hospital has formally rejected her request, saying they would only operate if there was a medical reason for doing so. Alison has said she will pursue the matter. She joins Jane along with Liz Sayce, Chief Executive of RADAR, to talk about the difficult decisions involved in caring for a severely disabled child.RADAR
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