2006-09-16 09:44:20 · 18 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
No. Are you trying to piss people off today?
2006-09-16 09:46:13 · answer #1 · answered by Girl Wonder 5 · 3⤊ 1⤋
The choice to sterilize people is a highly charged topic.
The word sterilize implies perminance, and removing someone from the gene pool perminantly is a heavy price.
Also sterilization has a strong history of association with eugenics. Even in America 30,000 people in the 1920-1930s were sterilized for "febile mindedness". This included being unable to read, and being a recent immigrant.
I do know California had a program for a while that offered drug addicts $250 to get the their tubes tied. This program was ended due to political issues.
It is hard to say if that was a good program or not.
On one hand: it prevented drug addicts from having more children, which would have otherwise often been abused or neglected.
On the other hand: We have laws that prevent someone from "signing away" their "right to reproduce" if they are not mentally competent to do so. For example the severly mentally diabled can no longer be sterilized. (although many are put on norplant) They are too disabled to consent to sex, any way. But they are vulnerable to abuse, so this is a precaution some families take.
The question is? are drug addicts mentall competent to throw away their right to reproduce? Or are they mentally ill?
I would never want to live in a country that force sterilized people again. And it is a definite grey area about the drug addict.
I would be for people who have had abortions to have the choice for a low cost sterilization if they want it. My taxes could be spent worse.
2006-09-16 16:54:05 · answer #2 · answered by Crystal Violet 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I'm sorry, 'they think they consider themselves' makes no sense.
However, many people terminate pregnancy NOT because they believe that they would be poor parents, but for many other reasons such as economic problems, being too young, not wanting to have a child in the first place, living in an environment that would be innapropriate for bringing up a baby etc.
Perhaps better than forcible sterilization would be the option of educating young people BEFORE they become sexually active about such things as pregnancy and birth control so they don't get put into that position to begin with.
2006-09-16 16:48:53 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 3⤊ 1⤋
This is a catch 22. Some of the women who get them do so at a young age when they are not ready, but go on latter in life to have a family. They do often think of the other child they could have had with regret. I can not say id sterilize them, but I still think offering a childless family the chance to adopt is the better chioce.
2006-09-16 16:52:53 · answer #4 · answered by mother_of_bonehead 3 · 0⤊ 1⤋
This question demonstrates a very uniformed conclusion about "why" women receive abortions. Though there may be some moral reason why you are offering such a negative comment, it would better serve your objective to become informed on the issue and ask questions that provoke serious thought, rather than stigmatized debate.
2006-09-16 17:05:46 · answer #5 · answered by Caleb B 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Rev, your questions are getting a little crazy here.
I don't believe in abortion, but I also don't believe in forced sterilizations.
2006-09-18 14:04:35 · answer #6 · answered by Brigid O' Somebody 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Good question. I dont know, but I admitt, I dont reject the concept on its face. If the destruction of a living thing results from a persons choice, it doesnt seem so unreasonable to at mimimum, prevent that person from ending the life of another living organism from the homo-sapien species.
2006-09-16 16:57:18 · answer #7 · answered by WWND 1 · 0⤊ 1⤋
since it's all about the dignity of human integrity, it goes both ways - you cannot tell another person to bear or not bear a child. it's not your business. besides, someone who has four kids and learns she is pregnant with a child with a disability that will be very demanding of their resources and energy might be a better parent for aborting that child than for having it. doncha think?
2006-09-16 16:47:10 · answer #8 · answered by cassandra 6 · 3⤊ 1⤋
yes.
i knew i'd be a great parent. but some people
are not really cut out to be a mom or dad.
i think that it should be done but only if i'd want to tie the tubes.
i tied my tubes because i knew i only wanted one child but also that this pregnancy was hard for me.
you see i have spinal arthritis and from one month i started to have problems but nothing that doing very little couldn't help me.
2006-09-16 16:48:12 · answer #9 · answered by BJ Hippy 1 · 2⤊ 1⤋
No way. Are you asking that the government actually have this power over people. That is a power that no government should have over people's lives.
2006-09-16 17:12:19 · answer #10 · answered by AuroraDawn 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
No, You made a choice and it was the wrong one so you ask God to forgive you and he will. Next time pray to him when under such stress
2006-09-16 16:51:06 · answer #11 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋