Thank you for your response. I totally agree with you on these observations.
I do not object to compelling her to undergo a surgical proceeder that prevents her from continuing her barbaric disregard of life.
Here's where I have a couple of questions; namely, what is wrong with the state putting this mother on trial for the murder of her child? Isn't that what the law and justice demand? I wonder what authority the judge had to give this woman this strange choice between a trial for murder and sterilization? The reason I ask is that a trial and a conviction and an execution of this woman would do no more than promote justice. Her execution would be a punishment due her which is proportionate to her crime, which by upholding justice, would protect the common good. Among other benefits, her execution would treat not only her, but her victim as well, as persons, i.e., made in the image of God. The sentencing of this judge does none of these things and is bizarre to me because once you get rid of the question of justice and start treating criminals as something less than persons who are morally responsible for their actions, they simply becomes the object of experiments in a crazy "Clockwork Orange" type of world where there is no human responsibility's and therefore no human dignity.
Cordially,