Mom of 9 cries foul (Claim: I was sterilized against my will)

The Boston Herald ^ | 01/03/2010 | By Jessica Fargen

[Bluestateredman]

I'm at a loss for words on this one.

[Oztrich Boy]

9 is too young to be a mother anyway.

[SWAMPSNIPER]

Why the Hell am I expected to help raise her kids?

[Venturer]

It’s too bad her mother didnt have a tubal ligation.

[chuck_the_tv_out]

There’s nothing wrong with having 9 kids in a healthy marriage! :)

But this woman obviously has mental problems. To top it all off she has a hereditary disease.

[freebilly]

She’s an idiot, no doubt, but idiot or not, forcing sterilization on someone is evil....

[growingpains]

Obamacare has begun.

[TheZMan]

I like “God works in mysterious ways.”

[Mrs.Z]

This is troubling.

Yes, this woman is the extreme example and logically should have been dealt with...

but if the courts or social services or whoever can do this to loonies it can do it to ANYBODY.

[MAexile]

‘It’s my choice’

Not exactly, sister. If my taxes pay for your SSI and welfare, I think I should get a say in how you conduct yourself.

[omega4179]

If she has a right to the product of my work then I have a right to her tubes.

[CholeraJoe]

To top it all off she has a hereditary disease.

What? Promiscuity? The hereditary pattern of Non-Hodgkin's Lymphoma has not been established.

[Anti-Bubba182]

This one want a lawsuit. I doubt if they did actually sterilize her “against her will”.

[bmwcyle]

The government check of our money only enables her life.

[freebilly]

Yeah, statist, have my tax money enforce tubal ligations....

[Lonesome in Massachussets]

Three generations of imbelices is enough.

People like this can only breed in a social welfare state.

Furthermore, this is an ex parte representation. I strongly suspect that documents will show she consented to the ligation and now has buyer’s remorse. I also doubt she used the spermacide as directed in the previous case, besides failure of any method of contraception, it would seem to me, is “buyer’s risk”. She’s just hoping for another pay off from an insurance company not eager to face a jury of her peers in this benighted Commonwealth.

[3catsanadog]

Her fiance is a personal care assistant? At best he makes between $8 and $12 an hour. Course I guess with welfare of what, about $500 a month per child, food stamps, a Hud rental, and his "comfortable" income, they are living high on the hog. And is she getting child support from any of the other sperm donors?

They just need a teensy bit more for which a lawsuit settlement will help.

And these companies need to stop settling these frivolous lawsuits. Her first with CVS, she used (if, in fact, she really did use it) an expired spermicide. She's playin' the system like a fiddle.

[ikka]

I think it is great that she wants to take responsibility for her life, including her ability to reproduce.

Therefore she certainly realizes that taking responsibility also means no longer accepting govt payments.

[Erik Latranyi]

Reproductive rights have nothing to do with this.

This woman is mentally ill.

[freebilly]

Thanks for your opinion. Since you live in Massachusetts and are used to living in an anti-freedom state I can forgive you.

Let me be clear, any government coercion of individuals regarding sterilization is evil.

Now, is there more to her story? Probably, but there's nothing in the story as written to indicate whether she's lying or not.

The greater evil is not the government giving this idiot money to take care of her children, the greater evil is the government using taxpayer money to enforce sterilization. If they can do that to her, they can do it to you....