Here’s the latest in a series of press interviews with the UK woman who says she wants her daughter’s uterus surgically removed to spare her the indignity of menstruation. With each interview, Alison Thorpe seems to paint a bleaker picture of her life with her daughter.

The article in the (UK) Guardian pulls its headline from the following quote:

“Of course I’ve thought about putting her into a home,” Alison volunteers. “And sometimes I still do. There are days, low days, maybe when you’ve been up 20 times in the night with Katie, and the next morning you pull the bed clothes back and you’re faced with poo everywhere, and you’ve got a blinding headache, and Melissa’s going mummy mummy can you do my lunch? And you’re thinking I don’t want this. I don’t want to be here. But then she goes to school, and it passes.”

Alison’s partner Peter, who also favors the hysterectomy for her daughter, is quoted.

“Our big problem,” he explains, “is that most of the pictures of Katie in the press make her look normal. Disabled, yes, but looking engaged, as if she’s interacting.”

The reporter does not seem to notice an obvious logical disconnect — that Alison’s complaints might better be resolved with more caregiving support rather than major abdominal surgery.

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