Alison Thorpe wants her daughter to have a hysterectomy. Her daughter Katie is 15 and has significant disabilities.

I wrote a really long post on this issue this evening and lost it – I can’t get find the emotion or energy to write it again. Bloody internet. Maybe I’ll write it tomorrow –

But one question – why is ok to have this young woman’s photo all over the UK press? Why is this in her best interests? And for tomorrow I might come to the issues of the non consensual elective procedures carried out on disabled women in Ireland and beyond and the farcical notion of best interests…