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Published: 01/11/10

Bearing Children You Can't Support: Subsidies vs. Eugenics

By  Bonnie Erbé - Politics Daily
Bearing Children You Can't Support: Subsidies vs. Eugenics

Bad cases make bad law, or so the saying goes in legal circles. But if ever there was a bad case that cries out for a public reexamination of long-standing legal principle, it is this one. A recently filed lawsuit reveals that a Massachusetts mother of nine is suing a hospital in Springfield for allegedly sterilizing her against her will. As ABC News reported, Tessa Savicki "claimed that doctors at Baystate Medical Center had agreed to insert an intrauterine device, or IUD, that she brought to the operating room, but instead performed a tubal ligation that effectively ended her chances of ...

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