I’m so glad to know this news. A three-judge panel of the Illinois Appellate Court unanimously ruled Friday against the bid to sterilise a 29-year-old mentally disabled woman.
Her legal guardian, her aunt, wanted to have her tubal ligated because ”her neice had had a bad medical reaction to other birth-control methods.”
“Tubal ligation is a particularly drastic means of preventing a mentally imcompetent ward from becoming pregnant” and there are ” less intrusive and less psychologically harmful [birth-control] alternatives,” one judge wrote in the opinion.
http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/local/chi-sterilize-mentally-disabled-web-apr19,1,1888285.story
