re: #500 Eowyn2

Hi Reine

Let me tell you a little story.
Not too long ago (10 yrs?)
The police were called to investigate a parked car a block away from my mother’s house.

When the police opened the trunk, they found not one, but two birthed infants. Both had been born alive (air had gotten into their lungs) about 10 months apart. The woman (late 20s) who had given birth to these infants was a meth addict and the babies would have been meth babies but they had a chance at survival. Her family did not know she had ever been pregnant.

Does the state have the right to put her on a long term birth control or sterilize her?

Reverse the situation to the male perspective.
If a man has fathered 20 kids from different women and shows no sign of changing his actions or supporting his offspring, does the state have the right to have him snipped and clipped?

I think it is something that should at least be an open discussion.

The story of a man who fathered 21 children is unfolding in Knoxville

Hatchett, who earns a minimal wage, told TV reporters he knows the names and ages of all his offspring.

Their ages range from newborn to 11 years old.

Authorities in Knoxville said they plan to take half of his monthly salary to pay for the youngsters but officials said that would work out to just over 1 a week for each.

His lawyer Keith Pope said: ‘The children can’t all be supported by Desmond, so the state of Tennessee has had to step in.’

Many Knoxville residents called for him to be castrated.

He even boasted of fathering four children by different women in the same year.