Originally Posted by R2D2

Either way, you are making a choice for the baby. If you don't implant when they are young, they may not have the choice when they are older because many CI centres will refuse to implant deaf adults with little or no speech or do so very reluctantly. Even if they find a program to implant them, the results for prelinguals without speech has been observed to be very limited and many of them do not continue to use their CIs. They would need extensive counselling to make sure they understand that as well.

Personally, if I was a profoundly deaf baby who was too deaf to benefit from hearing aids, I'd want my parents to give me the ability to make my choices further down the track when I'm old enough. That is, give me an implant early on enough to be able to develop speech so that I can choose later on whether I want to continue with it or turn it off. I would not want a hollow choice where I'm told I can get a CI but when it would be a complete waste of time because it's too late to develop speech skills.

I realise that you don't agree and understand and respect that. I'm just pointing out that there is a range of opinion out there even among us deaf, let alone hearing people. There are deaf people who'd think that you were too concessionary to the hearing world for being okay with deaf adults getting CIs. You can't please everyone.