[blazey]

Just to clarify, forceful sterilisation DOES occur but it has to be allowed by the court on application. It happens sometimes with women in mental institutes if it is believed to be in their best interest to not get pregnant.

There is a case called Re F that shows this occurring, but I can't remember the year... 2003 perhaps

Obviously there are discussions about human rights and thigns as you say, but if it can be argued that it would harm the woman or baby to allow pregnancy than of course people can intravene, just like women can have their babies taken straight from them once their born by social services.


The problem with THIS is that they think that it is acceptable to do it to all young girls, which is pretty terrible if you ask me. Just because some teenage girls get pregnant to get on benefits doesn't mean that they are the only ones to do it, older women are bound to do it too. You can't just sterilise the ones that look like they might be doing that, who would decide?!

It is just completely stupid, I can't even believe that people are having to discuss whether it is a good idea. I'm pretty sure that there is a woman with a 15yr old daughter who is pregnant on this forum at the moment and I'd love to see whether a grandmother-to-be to one of these 'problems' would agree with this inhumane idea.