RE: California Female Inmates Sterilized
July 8, 2013 at 5:01 pm
(This post was last modified: July 8, 2013 at 5:01 pm by Tiberius.)
The doctor who performed some of them:
Bolding mine. We should see the result of an investigation before we start crucifying doctors. If they were performing a procedure which was actually wanted by the patient, then there isn't anything wrong with it.
Note that I'm not saying they wanted it; I'm merely exercising skepticism until we have more evidence. Innocent until proven guilty, and all that.
Quote:“Over a 10-year period, that isn’t a huge amount of money,” Heinrich said, “compared to what you save in welfare paying for these unwanted children – as they procreated more. They all wanted it done,” he said of the sterilizations. “If they come a year or two later saying, ‘Somebody forced me to have this done,’ that’s a lie. That’s somebody looking for the state to give them a handout.”
Bolding mine. We should see the result of an investigation before we start crucifying doctors. If they were performing a procedure which was actually wanted by the patient, then there isn't anything wrong with it.
Note that I'm not saying they wanted it; I'm merely exercising skepticism until we have more evidence. Innocent until proven guilty, and all that.
