Do you want to have children? If so, you better not be arrested and brought before Travis County Judge Charlie Baird. He recently sentenced a woman (Felicia Salazar) to be forever more without child.
Can a judge really do this? Apparently there is some precedent although many legal experts say the ruling is probably unconstitutional.
The only case I remember from my stay in law school that comes close is Buck v. Bell, where the Supreme Court ruled a mother undergo a sterility procedure because she came from a long line of mentally incompetent people and the court wanted her to stop breeding (which is still good law by the way — has yet to be overturned).
Not one of our finer moments…
I’ve always said that a test should be performed before two adults begin the effort of creating a child. Sometime, politicians are right.
Most times they are not.
Maybe the offendant learned that she has to be responsible. That’s the whole point right?
PS: I have no children and have practiced safely to avoid this.
She was sentanced that cause she failed to protect her child from being beaten by the father and to give her child proper medical attention.