Womb of their own

Are they kidding?

Women in the Netherlands deemed "unfit mothers" may soon be forced to take contraception, if a draft bill currently before the Dutch parliament is passed. The bill "targets women who have been the subject of judicial intervention due to their bad parenting," says its author, a member of the Netherlands' socialist Labour Party.

Under the proposed legislation, a woman judged unfit who refuses to take contraception and becomes pregnant would have her child taken away at birth. The infant then would be placed in a foster home.

The Pill isn't good for every woman. Where does a state even contemplate making a woman play with her hormones? Or go against her religious beliefs on contraception?

What's next? Forced sterilization?

What about disabled women? There are already judicial battles over whether physically and/or mentally-challenged women have the right to have children.

More here:

Is it really the state's role to protect the unborn and does it have the right to control people's bodies in such a way and to deprive them of the basic right to procreate? Whatever happened to the presumption of innocence? Just because a parent was bad with one child, does it mean (s)he will repeat the offence?

More to the point, what about men who ''have been the subject of judicial intervention due to their bad parenting?'' What about rapists? What about abusers of women? Anybody proposing a few snips to stop them from reproducing?

Oh. Right. Nobody is ever trying to control their reproductive freedoms, are they?

Comments

[sooey]

Contraception for bad mothers, eh.

Ironic.

[matttb.]

I'm in shock.

[Karol Karolak]

Antonia,

There is hope for you, I am glad that you finally started to report on the flip side of abortion debate.

===The new division of labour in the sisterhood.===

Smart women have abortions and adopt (buy) the kids when they are ready and the stupid ones carry their pregancy to term give a childbirth and have their kids stolen by the state (to supply adoption market) right after delivery, it all makes sense to me.

I hope that you do not suppose that kids are delivered by the stork or found in cabbage path and I hope that you do not suppose that these kids that are stolen by the state are send to central Africa to be raised.