Posted on 08/16/2013 1:58:54 PM PDT by nickcarraway
A man with significant learning difficulties has been ordered to undergo a vasectomy to prevent him from having further children in a landmark legal ruling by the High Court
Mrs Justice Eleanor King, sitting in the Court of Protection, said there was "no question" of the 36-year-old having the mental capacity to use contraception and that it was "lawful and overwhelmingly in his best interests" for him to be sterilised. The man, identified only as DE, and his long-term girlfriend who also has learning difficulties, had a son in 2010.
As a result, measures were taken to prevent another pregnancy and DE was required to be supervised at all times, effectively losing his limited but “hard-won” independence.
The consequences were "profound" for both families and the judge noted that the couple’s long-standing relationship "nearly broke under the strain, but remarkably weathered the storm".
The little boy is now cared for by his maternal grandmother but the court was told it was "inevitable" that if they had another baby it would be taken into care, causing significant psychological distress and likely resulting in the breakdown of their relationship.
(Excerpt) Read more at telegraph.co.uk ...
Unprecedented?
The Nazis did it as a matter of policy.
Do we REALLY want two retarded people producing children?
That’s a really “retarded” thing to say. Your appointment is at 3 pm tomorrow.
Too late. Biden’s already had kids.
And you're not retarded because...?
Luckily it is in England. It will probably take two years to schedule the appointment so he has the opportunity to have a couple children if he wants to.
This has been tried before, and it does not end well.
Perhaps the British bureaucracy is unaware of the precedents in history - it may have its own “learning difficulties”.
The real question is do we want the state deciding? When the state determines what is moral and enforces what is moral............................
Getting all politically correct, are we? Go pound sand.
Give me a break. The state enforces morality all the time. Murder is an immoral act. Prostitution is an immoral act. Theft is an immoral act.
For which they can’t care.
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Do we really want the government to decide whether two people should be permitted to have children? At what point would a couple be declared unsuited to reproduce? The less government control, the better.
Many, many infertile couples would give almost anything for a baby.
“Do we REALLY want two retarded people producing children?”
Why not? Liberals do it all the time.
God, is that you?
Angelina Jolie had her own....which propogates her own defect. Was that fair to the child?
Where is wisdom??
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