Court: No forced sterilization of woman with intellectual disability
April 18th, 2008From the Chicago Tribune:
In a precedent-setting case, the Illinois Appellate Court on Friday denied a bid to have a mentally disabled woman sterilized against her will, ruling the woman’s guardian didn’t prove the procedure would be in her best interests.
The woman, identified in the opinion only as K.E.J., is not capable of raising a child due to her disability, the court acknowledged in its 3-0 ruling.
“Nevertheless that need not justify tubal ligation” when there are “less intrusive and less psychologically harmful [birth-control] alternatives,” Judge Joseph Gordon wrote for the unanimous panel.
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