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In Buck v.Bell, the United States Supreme Court ruled in a majority opinion written by Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr. that a state statute that authorized compulsory sterilization of the unfit, including the intellectually disabled, "for the protection and health of the state" did not violate the Due Process clause of the Fourteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution.
The inability to pay for the cost of raising children has been a reason courts have ordered coercive or compulsory sterilization. In June 2014, a Virginia judge ruled that a man on probation for child endangerment must be able to pay for his seven children before having more children; the man agreed to get a vasectomy as part of his plea deal ...
In 2016, Judge Sam Benningfield signed an order that permitted inmates at the White County Jail to get 30 days taken off their sentences if they underwent a birth control procedure. As of February 2017, approximately 32 women had received birth control implants and 38 men had agreed to getting vasectomies. [ 11 ]
Women can opt for sterilisation if they have had "any medical illness that could endanger their life in future due to pregnancy". [11] United Kingdom Illegal since 2014 when the Council of Europe Convention on Preventing and Combating Violence Against Women and Domestic Violence came into effect Yes [1] United States Yes [1] Uruguay Yes [2] As ...
SURGICAL CASTRATION AS PUNISHMENT. Similar to a handful of other states — including California, Florida and Texas — for more than 15 years Louisiana has had a law in place allowing judges to ...
Louisiana has become the first state where judges can order offenders guilty of certain sex crimes against children to undergo surgical castration under a bill signed into law by Republican Gov ...
There were gay men on General Washington's staff and among the leaders of the new republic, [4] [page needed] even though in Virginia there was a maximum penalty of death for sodomy. [citation needed] In 1779, Thomas Jefferson tried to reduce Virginia's maximum punishment for sodomy to castration, [5] but it was rejected by the Virginia ...
A horrific video posted online on Thursday appears to show a Ukrainian prisoner of war being castrated by his Russian captors. While Yahoo News cannot independently verify the authenticity of the ...