A High Court judge is being asked to make legal history and sanction the first sterilisation of a man in this country because it is ‘in his best interests’.
Referred to as ‘DE’, the 36-year-old, from the Midlands, has learning difficulties and already has a son with his girlfriend, born in 2010.
The court heard that DE does not want to become a father again, and another child could cause him ‘psychological harm’.
Experts have assessed that DE is capable of consenting to sexual relationships.
But he does not have capacity when it comes to making decisions about contraception and cannot be relied upon to use condoms or other birth control methods effectively to prevent pregnancy.
Man with learning difficulties, 36, ‘banned’ from having sex as judge considers whether to make legal history by ordering him to have a vasectomy | Mail Online
This ingenious idea formed the basis of Nazi Germany
Nazi eugenics were Nazi Germany’s racially based social policies that placed the improvement of the Aryan race through eugenics at the center of Nazis ideology. Those humans were targeted who were identified as “life unworthy of life” (German: Lebensunwertes Leben), including but not limited to the criminal, degenerate, dissident, feeble-minded, homosexual, idle, insane, and the weak, for elimination from the chain of heredity. More than 400,000 people were sterilized against their will
Nazi eugenics – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
