‘A hospital doctor who gave a man a vasectomy by mistake after he complaint about waiting for another procedure has admitted misconduct charges.’
Daily Telegraph, 16th March 2016
Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
‘A mother-of-six with learning disabilities can be sterilised, a judge has ruled.’
The Guardian, 4th February 2015
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“A high court judge has for the first time sanctioned the sterilisation of a man because it is ‘in his best interests. ‘ ”
The Guardian, 16th August 2013
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“A High Court judge is due to give her decision on whether to allow the first sterilisation of a man because it is ‘in his best interests.’ ”
BBC News, 16th August 2013
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
“A man with learning difficulties could become the first in the country to have a vasectomy on the orders of a judge in a case lawyers insist is ‘not covered by a shadow of eugenics’.”
Daily Telegraph, 2nd August 2013
Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
“An NHS trust is fighting a court battle to sterilise a man with moderate learning difficulties.”
Daily Telegraph, 30th July 2013
Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
“The parents of a ‘tactile’ and ‘affectionate’ woman with Down’s syndrome have been forbidden from having her sterilised to ally their fears that she might become pregnant.”
Daily Telegraph, 16th February 2013
Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
Around one hundred child sex offenders have undergone chemical castration under a government programme to reduce the likelihood of them reoffending.
Daily Telegraph, 13th March 2012
Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
“A legal attempt to sterilise a 21-year-old mother with ‘significant learning difficulties’ to prevent further pregnancies has been withdrawn.”
BBC News, 20th April 2011
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
“The mother of a young woman with learning difficulties who is pregnant with her second child broke down in tears as she pleaded with a high court judge to allow her daughter to be forcibly sterilised for her own protection.”
The Guardian, 15th February 2011
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
Related: Test case over sterilisation puts court of protection under public scrutiny
“A controversial court that still holds its hearing in private will decide tomorrow whether a pregnant woman with learning difficulties should be forcibly sterilised once she gives birth.”
The Independent, 14th February 2011
Source: www.independent.co.uk
“A woman with learning difficulties could be forcibly sterilised after she gives birth this week to stop her becoming pregnant again.”
Daily Telegraph, 14th February 2011
Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
“Convicted paedophiles are being offered chemical castration for the first time in the UK to help manage their sexual behaviour.”
Daily Telegraph, 26th August 2008
Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
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