Essays on Sterilization

I am against the idea of parenting license as it intervenes in individual freedom, violates the human right to ‘procreate’, and promotes practices such as forced abortion and sterilization. It is a rather an idealized perception that children can be raised by the adoption and practice of ‘impartially correct and approved’ ways. Cases of neglect and abuse of children could be evidently identified that indicate a clear threat to the child’s wellbeing. There are many cases whereby children are malnourished and fed poorly, mistreated, and physically and emotionally injured. Intervention in such cases is truly reasonable and acceptable. ...

Eugenics is defined by Coutts and McCarrick (1995, p.163) as the methods used in perfecting the human race thorough genetic technologies or the traditional genetic selection (Sparrow, 2010, p.288). But this definition was twisted to defend the enhancement of human beings by sterilizing those who are considered to be inadequate (Coutts and McCarrick, p.1995, p.163). The definition of an inadequate genetic heredity was defined by the 1924 Virginia Eugenical Sterilization Act to include feeblemindedness and sexual promiscuity, which is believed to be be passed on to the next generation (Claude, 2004). The first test subject for the sterilization law ...

Is the “Beijing Model” Applicable in Other Countries?

Introduction The Chinese economical development is under close examination of the experts across the world as the country has succeeded to achieve the leading positions across the world based on its economical model. Some experts believe that Chinese model of economical development may be applied by other countries, while the opponents to this position state that this approach may exist under the circumstances available in China. Since second half of the twentieth century, Chinese development is featured with permanent growth with annual rate of 10%. In the contemporary economical society, the GDP in the country is higher up to ...

During each historical epoch was only her peculiar attitude towards people with disabilities and to people something different from the majority. Everything depended on how disability is understood in society, as explained by its appearance and physical manifestations in life she had. Depending on the understanding also varied and the resources that are available to this category of citizens, including access to quality education. Education has always been considered the key to the development of society. Especially important is education for children with disabilities, because it is just a tool that helps these children to become independent and to ...

Birth control is a practice that helps us to plan the timing of pregnancy as well as prevent pregnancy. Just like Vaginal ring and birth control patches, birth control pills regulate the oestrogen and progestin hormone levels in the body. The pills are taken as progestin-only or combination pills which have both the oestrogen and progestin. They work by preventing ovulation thereby inhibiting fertilization. Besides, they make the cervical mucus thicker which reduces chances of sperm to reach the egg. The oestrogen and progestin-based methods are very effective when administered at the right time as prescribed. They are also ...

The dream of every expectant mother is to give birth to a healthy baby when the nine months elapse. However, the culture of uncertainty among expectant mothers has engulfed their thoughts of the possibility of giving birth to children with disabilities. As a result, they have turned to clinics for prenatal screening with a hope of getting a clean bill of health from medical practitioners about their current situation. All these efforts are not in vain in their minds as long as they are assured their babies will not have Down’s syndrome. These frantic efforts paintan image of ...

Alexander talks about race, ethnicity and social justice following the racial discriminations after the Civil Rights Movements. African-Americans were subjected to mass incarcerations which were done to control racism. The same racial disparity operates in the criminal justice system. The police investigated their cases on basis of race as blacks were constantly stopped and grilled on their names and documents. The blacks were unnecessarily convicted of drug abuse and the US that time recorded the highest rates of mass incarceration. The problem was that the large number of the imprisoned were racial or ethnic minorities. All races used drugs ...

Women and Births in Bom Jesus

According to Scheper-Hughes, the residents of the place Bom Jesus were living in very squalid condition. The men, women and children were used to living a very hard life. Those poor women in Bom Jesus believed that an ideal family should have two or three children and actually that is what they actually brought up but a striking concern is that they had a range of nine to twelve pregnancies (Scheper-Hughes, 332). The answer to the question, why so many pregnancies and yet the ideal size is just a few can only be given by the culture and the ...

Renee Tajima-Pena and Virginia Espinso’s 2015 documentary No Mas Bebes tells the harrowing tale of a number of Mexican immigrant mothers who found themselves the victims of forced sterilization after visiting Los Angeles County General Hospital in the 1970s to give birth. The documentary delves into a number of vital and important issues central to Latina rights, reproductive rights, and the state of immigrant relations in the United States. In its depiction of the implicit horrors of the Mexican immigrant experience, these individuals are shown as brave victims of a system that punishes women for being immigrants, thus ...

Eugenics is usually a desire by the superior class of humans to create a society whose members are superior and have supernatural abilities. In the world of certain eugenics sections of the society who are considered defective and do not warrant to mix and interbreed. In an attempt to create a perfect society, the beliefs of the eugenicists took into consideration application of the theories of evolution in outrageous mannerism to thwart the influence of defective members of the society (Allen 314-25). In their quest, they supported the application of Darwin’s theories that projected survival only to the ...