The current case before a British judge as to whether a mentally disabled woman identified only as “P” should be sterilized has raised the ire of medical ethicists and the disability community. The question that I can’t seem to answer is: “Why?”
As someone who supports the decision to sterilize “P”, I can say that I do so not because I think that there is anything concerning about her genes. What is concerning is that she is unable to care for her own child or herself.…