Parents sterilise intellectually challenged daughters

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What is the Catholic position on an example such as this?

I have been debating this with a friend who thinks it was a wise decision and a decision only the parents can make.

I think the parents have abused their children’s human rights, their bodies and their reproductive rights.

abc.net.au/news/2013-07-16/parents-of-intellectually-disabled-girls-back-sterilisation/4824256
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It’s them mutilating their daughters. It’s grievous child abuse and extremely sinful.
 
Falls into the same category as abortion for genetically identified anomaly in the unborn child; and, euthanasia of the elderly who are a “burden”, suffering from dementia or Parkinson’s or Alzheimer’s. After all, it’s for “their own good”, right? This is where the world is going. We are in the minority.
 
What, then, about the sexually active women with severe mental retardation? One pregnancy after another? What is the practical solution that the Church offers? Are taxpayers supposed to foot the bill? Will the Church be chipping in? Who will care for the multitude of children that a woman such as this may have?:confused:
 
Country_Gal said:
What, then, about the sexually active women with severe mental retardation? One pregnancy after another?
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Their caregivers are charged with protecting them from such circumstances.
Country_Gal said:
What is the practical solution that the Church offers?
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Caregivers do their jobs as caregivers and responsible adults.
Country_Gal said:
Are taxpayers supposed to foot the bill? Will the Church be chipping in?
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Not a matter of faith or morals.

There are many ways in which society can provide for children who may be born into all sorts of difficult circumstances. Public, private, or some combination, is not matter of doctrine. There can be many solutions, none of which the Church does or should dictate.

The Church cannot change the truth because it is difficult. The right answer is to defend these women from predation, not make it easy for predators to avoid consequences through contraception, sterilization, or abortion.
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Who will care for the multitude of children that a woman such as this may have?:confused:
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Logical fallacy. You assume “a woman such as this” would have a “multitude” of children.
 
If you actually read the link that came with this post, you will see that this is not some kind of Hitler-like scheme to sterilize handicapped people.

Many Catholic women end up having a hysterectomy because of excessive bleeding. This has always been okay with the Church.

Actually, if you’re talking about sterilization for birth control purposes, the normal way to do that would be to do a tubal ligation. I doubt if any ethical doctor would give a woman a hysterectomy just for birth control purposes.

These two women had a medical issue with bleeding, so each had a hysterectomy. We can’t tell from the article whether the bleeding was excessive or not, but these two women simply couldn’t handle bleeding at all. They were incapable of signing a medical release, so their guardians had to do it.

These two women would not be capable of entering into a marriage, so a uterus would serve no purpose for them except to make them so upset that they would injure themselves. If they could somehow have children, they would be incapable of raising them.

According to the article, the bleeding could have been stopped with shots or pills, but it seemed more expedient for them to have a hysterectomy and cure it once and for all.

There is no indication that these women have any kind of boy friends in their lives, so I don’t see any way that these hysterectomies would be birth control.
 
I wonder on how the Lord views that those of us with ego judge others…

There is a segment of Catholics that seem to be able to see only in black and white…

And there is the grey…How does Christ judge the grey…???
 
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