By Daniel J. Flynn
Can a judge, without even holding a hearing, order a woman sterilized in a state where compulsory sterilization has never been the law?
As North Carolina prepares to pay reparations to victims of its decades-long eugenics campaign, Massachusetts strangely enters a sterilization debate that most had thought long over. Norfolk County Probate and Family Court Judge Christina L. Harms earlier this month ordered that a bipolar and schizophrenic woman be "coaxed, bribed, or even enticed…by ruse" to abort her pregnancy and undergo sterilization. If the mentally ill woman were sane, the judge determined, she "would not choose to be delusional" and therefore, she would choose abortion.
Does "our bodies, our choice" still apply when we are not in our right minds?
Read more: http://spectator.org/archives/2012/01/31/mass-sterilization
Can a judge, without even holding a hearing, order a woman sterilized in a state where compulsory sterilization has never been the law?
As North Carolina prepares to pay reparations to victims of its decades-long eugenics campaign, Massachusetts strangely enters a sterilization debate that most had thought long over. Norfolk County Probate and Family Court Judge Christina L. Harms earlier this month ordered that a bipolar and schizophrenic woman be "coaxed, bribed, or even enticed…by ruse" to abort her pregnancy and undergo sterilization. If the mentally ill woman were sane, the judge determined, she "would not choose to be delusional" and therefore, she would choose abortion.
Does "our bodies, our choice" still apply when we are not in our right minds?
Read more: http://spectator.org/archives/2012/01/31/mass-sterilization
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