How crazy is this right here? An obvious police state like China forces contraception. I guess the "Western" world is not staying far behind. This is the first door opening for eugenics startegies like this. Where is this leading to?
Women in the Netherlands who are deemed by the state to be unfit mothers should be sentenced to take contraception for a prescribed period of two years, according to a draft bill before the Dutch parliament.
The proposed legislation would further punish parents who defied it by taking away their newborn infant. “It targets people who have been the subject of judicial intervention because of their bad parenting,” explained the author of the bill Marjo Van Dijken of the socialist PvDA. “If someone refuses the contraception and becomes pregnant, the child must be taken away directly after birth.”
When I see how some parents treat their children and come across adults who wish they’d never been born because of the abuse they endured as kids, I get some idea of where Van Dijken is coming from, but her proposed solution strikes me as far too draconian.
In fact, I have serious misgivings about the implications of this proposed law, and it raises a torrent of questions in my mind. Is it really the state’s role to protect the unborn and does it have the right to control people’s bodies in such a way and to deprive them of the basic right to procreate? Whatever happened to the presumption of innocence? Just because a parent was bad with one child, does it mean (s)he will repeat the offence?
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It strikes me once again how different Germany and The Netherlands are. Such a "reform" would never find its way here, on the other hand, unfit parents and their unlucky children are left to their own misery.
I find this method also draconian (and unjust), I wonder though if I'd go in the street to protest about it...
Anyway, this is another example of the incorrectness of any drastic reform: forced contraception is as unjust as abortion ban, the state doesn't have the right to control people's bodies.
Care to post a link about it for those among us who are not up to date with Dutch politics?
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