[Mrs. Don-o]

No one has any right to force contraception or sterilization (whether temporary or permanent) upon an unwilling woman -— or man.

There’s a great deal of opiate dependency here in East Tennessee (both IV and oral) and forcing the implantation of a contraceptive such as Norplant would require totalitarian controls and the corruption of those in the medical profession conscripted as enforcers.

Any coerced contraception is a grave violation of human dignity, and leads by a short route to such atrocities as forced eugenic sterilization (as in Buck vs Bell) and wholesale brutalities such as population suppression in Communist China.

This is one of the big reasons why we have to get did of Obamacare, isn’t it? To keep medical decisions out of the hands of the State?

[Mad_as_heck]

In a just and sane society a person who harms a child would be in jail or a mental institution. Their release would be predicated on those measures that would protect the public from further harm. Compelling people who are 100% certain to birth further "crack babies" to accept the administration of a temporary and reversible birth control device is ethical, moral, and just.

Throwing people in prison- or a psychiatric hospital - is an even graver violation of human dignity and yet we do that every day.

I would not throw a man in cell or hospital room lightly but there are times where such is necessary for his safety and the safety of the public. Same with quarantining people with infectious diseases.

I equally do not casually suggest forcing this measure on certain people who have either committed a crime against their children to take birth control. Such is, nevertheless, in my mind a legitimate public health measure.

I would certainly make an exception for someone with strong religious or ethical objections to birth control. I would prefer that people behave with personal responsibility and would not use such measures except in extraordinary situations.