Female Inmates Sterilized In California Prisons Without Approval

http://www.sacbee.com/2013/07/07/5549696/female-inmates-sterilized-in-california.html

by ytNumbers • 13 years ago

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jlgreco4• 13 years ago

Mother of all misleading headlines... the doctors received the approval of the patients. They didn't receive state approval.

StavrosK• 13 years ago

Thanks for that, I guess the next post is going to be "Doctors in Federal Prison Euthanizing Inmates Without Approval or Consent" where Inmates is the name of the prison's 15-year-old suffering mascot dog.

cgranade3• 13 years ago

Approval under continual coercion, especially by people with significant authority over you, isn't actually approval in any meaningful sense. It's not a misleading headline at all.

jlgreco4• 13 years ago

I'm not a doctor, and I cannot speak for the ethical standards that doctors hold themselves to. I understand only that they are stringent. Quite possibly, I am on the wrong side here as far as doctors are concerned.

However, to me, the methods of coercion are entirely relevant here, and make all the difference. From what these doctors weren't holding lengthened sentences or reduced meal quality over these women... I would describe it more as "convincing" than "coercing". Perhaps they were too persistent in seeking approval, but that is something that is subject to individual interpretation.

Regardless, even if what they were doing was clearly deplorable coercion, the headline is clearly misleading. I went from "What century is this!?!" to "eeeh..." in record time...

dromidas• 13 years ago

"He made me feel like a bad mother if I didn't do it."

Ya know, if you have 5 kids and you're in prison and a candidate "likely to return" then guess what? You ARE a bad mother whether you prevent fucking up a 6th, 7th, nth child in the future won't change that.

Female Inmates Sterilized In California Prisons Without Approval

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