Is Forced Sterilization Legal

[jk]

Buck v. Bell (1927)

http://www.law.cornell.edu/supct/htm...4_0200_ZO.html





It would appear so, at least based on this judge:

http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/...judges-ruling/

[PandorasBox]

I think it should be in a few cases:

- Violent sex offenders. Child rapists. Serial rapists.

- The people - both mail and female - who continue to pop out welfare baby after welfare baby after welfare baby. I once read this article on this woman who couldn't look for work, but could pop out an 8th baby - all with different dads! And do the "I dunno who the daddy is....". think.

[jk]

- Violent sex offenders. Child rapists. Serial rapists.
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It's funny you say that. There was an heir to (I think) Upjohn Pharma. Guilty of some sex offense. He offered to take some drug his company made to "chemically castrate" himself in lieu of going to jail. Judge said no.


The problem with using it as a punishment; it can easily be argued it is cruel. To force a person to undergo a surgical procedure it beyond the reach of the Constitution, at least as far as a punishment goes.

[PandorasBox]

The problem with using it as a punishment; it can easily be argued it is cruel.

Agreed. I would say though....if serious crimes are proven beyond a shadow of a doubt....it can be argued that what the victims endured was also cruel....

[MrMeow]

I think it should be in a few cases:
- The people - both mail and female - who continue to pop out welfare baby after welfare baby after welfare baby. I once read this article on this woman who couldn't look for work, but could pop out an 8th baby - all with different dads! And do the "I dunno who the daddy is....". think.

Are individuals offered free family planning services while on public assistance? I know, from a male perspective, when the urge comes to procreate, a guy isn't going to tell his lady to wait while his requisition for condoms is processed by public aid. Give them an allowance in a health spending account for qualified over the counter medical items. You could actually just add a health spending account to the EBT card they're already using for SNAP benefits (junk food allowance; proteins and produce are luxuries that SNAP recipients can't afford). Sterilization will certainly solve the problem, but at what cost? I think the supreme court would strike that down faster then it took to enact it. You could however possibly make birth control mandatory while on public assistance. The trouble is that permanently disabled individuals are also on public aid, so forced birth control would be counter to public policy and civil rights of disabled individuals. It's a sticky situation.

Being a disabled individual and having been on public assistance prior, their is a complete coverage gap for over the counter medical items. Let's say an over the counter medication is available to solve your problem, but because your on social security anything beyond toilet paper is a luxury... what ends up happening is we see our doctors and have them write a script for a restricted equivalent to the over the counter drug, because filling a script only costs a buck out of our own pocket. So the public gets to pay $100 for the doctors visit and $50/month for the script when a $20 over the counter would have worked. So put a few bucks in a discretionary health account for drug store items, it will help prevent welfare babies and so many other problems that low income disabled individuals face.

[llworking]

Buck v. Bell (1927)

http://www.law.cornell.edu/supct/htm...4_0200_ZO.html





It would appear so, at least based on this judge:

http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/...judges-ruling/

I think it was a really stupid ruling for the judge to make...both politically, and legally. What's more, would the parents have even been able to find a doctor willing to perform the abortion in a case like this one? I am not sure that would have even been possible.