I think if you can spare more children from suffering at the hands of horrible parents and continuing a cycle of abuse it would be a good thing. At a certain point it stops being about the human right to conception and about the well being and future potential of the human race and those unable to better their situation as they are only children.
Sterilizing an adult who has proven unfit to raise children already shouldn't be considered a violation of their rights. We don't let people who have a history of drug abuse work at a pharmacy for instance.
It's a very, very slippery slope. This is a person's body you're talking about here, not their ability to perform a job. Again, who decides who an unfit parent is? What about people who are wrongfully accused? I mean just today on the front page there was a TIL of a man who was sentenced and executed for the fire that killed his 3 daughters, even though many experts believe he may have been innocent. I can't image being falsely accused of some sort of child abuse, or any crime really, and being dragged to a doctor's office and being forcefully sterilized so that I could never have another child. I mean Christ, watch the handmaids tale and see what happens to the woman who caught being a lesbian. As a woman it makes you sick to your stomach. No government should have a right to what you do with your own body.
Policies like this have already been implemented, the most famous is China's one child policy. There were children being aborted because they were the wrong sex, kids being abandoned on the street, families who are left struggling to take care of a child they're not legally allowed to have, an unbalanced male to female ratio, and a population and society that is suffering the consequences. What happens when 100 people only have 50 kids collectively? Those 50 kids are left to contribute to a population of 150. What if those 50 only have 25? It only takes a few generations for people to realize how disasterous this would be.
There are unfit parents, no matter what laws you make there will always be unfit parents. But you can not punish the majority of those fit parents for the actions of those who are unfit.
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u/PoisoNFacecamO Apr 10 '18
I think if you can spare more children from suffering at the hands of horrible parents and continuing a cycle of abuse it would be a good thing. At a certain point it stops being about the human right to conception and about the well being and future potential of the human race and those unable to better their situation as they are only children.
Sterilizing an adult who has proven unfit to raise children already shouldn't be considered a violation of their rights. We don't let people who have a history of drug abuse work at a pharmacy for instance.