Legal Commentary

Mad pride.

While psychiatrists generally support the mad pride movement?s desire to speak openly, some have cautioned that a ?pro choice? attitude toward medicine can have dire consequences.

?Would you be pro-choice with someone who has another brain disease, Alzheimer?s, who wants to walk outside in the snow without their shoes and socks?? said Dr. E. Fuller Torrey, executive director of the Stanley Medical Research Institute in Chevy Chase, Md.

Full post as published by Althouse on May 11, 2008 (boomark / email).