A disturbing article by Wendy McElroy.
It strikes me that in using people too young to consent for medical trials, there needs to be some sort of public (as in, keep the records open to the public) oversight, and that the custodians of the children should have the final say.
Medical trials are necessar for progress to be made, but people should not be treated as mere guinea pigs; as children are not generally considere competent, theirs is a tough case when it comes to medical experimentation, but if children were remove3d from care because the caregivers would not let them be used for trials of experimental drugs, something is very, very wrong.
That is all for now.
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