What you're missing is that they didn't go to the doc and ask for it, they were pressured and coerced into it. Some of these women were obviously not of a mental capacity to make an informed decision which is even worse. It is state-sponsored eugenics and absolutely appalling.
They didn't go to the doctor I get that but it was offered and they said yes. The were repeat offenders who were also pregnant. What is rational and logical can change down the road when there is possible money involved. Who said they were coerced? A convict...LATER.
As for mental capacity here for me it gets dicey. We had a young girl living in the building here.
She had three kids, separated from her boyfriends and their fathers. She went downstairs to the front door to talk to one of her many male visitors. She left her baby in the tub. When she came back up, 15 or so minutes later, the baby was floating, she had no phone to call 911 and ran up and down the hall screaming until someone responded. They worked on that child in the home and later in the ambulance at the front door for 45 minutes, so well over an hour in total. The baby lived.
That baby will NEVER have a life. The girl,s parents will never have a life. Baby can't walk or talk or focus. That girl gets pregnant every year and every baby gets removed immediately.
So I am uncertain about how I feel about "forced" sterilization. I am not saying yes or not because it is grey to me. As was the above situation. Were some rights violated. Maybe. Try though I may nothing to me is black and white. Life would be easier if it was.
You don't need to force anything... All one needs to do is 'force' the bio parent(s) to assume full and complete financial responsibility for their children and you'll see things change over night
While the sentiment is a good one I'm not sure how you force financial responsibility on the destitute and imprisioned.
Can't because of the welfare of the children.