I happen to think sterilization without consent is criminal. I know that
Gov. Bush is using the 'incompetent argument but even that doesn't sit well
with me at all. It's so final, and takes away the woman's choice.
I fully support a woman's freedom of choice to do as she wishes with her
body, even abortion. I also happen to think mentally-disabled people have
rights, and this is taking away a basic right.
Kat
----- Original Message -----
From: "Kendall D. Corbett" <[log in to unmask]>
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To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Tuesday, May 27, 2003 11:50 AM
Subject: Re: My Job (was Re: Voucher Plan Removes Disabled Preference.)
> Mag, et. al.,
>
> If the women in Florida are severely disabled enough that caring for the
> babies would be a major hardship either emotionally or physically, or if
> caring for an infant conceived through a rape is something they are not
> willing to do, I'd agree with it *_IF IT IS THEIR CHOICE_*. The
> sterilization would be the same thing.
>
> The part that bothers me is saying that the women will be sterilized
> because of this. That seems to punish the women in a way that the
> perpetrator will not be punished....unless he/they will also be
> castrated, which may be appropriate.
>
> It brings to mind something I've discussed with my mom and my wife. My
> mom went through nurses training in the late forties or early fifties at
> the University of Iowa. Part of her training was at the UI "Hospital
> School," where a lot of intensive therapy for kids with CP and other
> disabilities was performed. Mom said that a lot of the young girls
> there were routinely sterilized. She defended the practice until Janet
> and I got together in 1995, because of reasons probably similar to Gov.
> Bush. When she got to know Janet, she changed her mind, because Janet
> had been a student at the Hospital school for summer PT, OT, and speech
> tune-ups when she was in elementary school, and mom realized that some
> of the girls that had been sterilized when she was in school probably
> had the intellectual capacity that Janet does, (she's got a Master's in
> adult education) and should not have had that choice taken away from
> them.
>
> Kendall Corbett
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>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Magenta Raine [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
> Sent: Sunday, May 25, 2003 5:46 PM
> To: [log in to unmask]
> Subject: Re: My Job (was Re: Voucher Plan Removes Disabled Preference.)
>
> Excellent job, Joy! I read today about two cases in Florida where
> mentally
> challenged women are having abortions after being raped. Gov. Jeb bush
> signed
> these orders. What do you think ought to be done in cases like this? He
> is
> also ordering them to be sterilized. I'm wondering how else they are
> going to
> find out these and other women are getting raped in group homes. It's
> not an
> easy answer.
>
> Mag, who cried at the end of Bruce Almighty :-)
>
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> including
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