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...Medical Association opposes the use of medical procedures as a part of criminal penalties. "Physicians have no business acting as agents of the state to punish people," says Dr. George Annas, a professor of health law at Boston University medical school. "This includes sterilization, any surgical procedure or ((implanting)) Norplant." In the Butler case so far, one doctor has already withdrawn his agreement to perform the castration...
...upset about the Norplant decision...
...That was your most notorious case. Darlene Johnson, the defendant, pleaded guilty to beating her children brutally. You could have sent her to state prison for four years. Instead, you now stand accused of violating her constitutional rights by requiring her to use Norplant, a form of birth control that is implanted...
...know I'm not smarter than everybody else. And face it, nobody in their right mind would seek the kind of lacerating publicity this Norplant decision has generated. This happened to me. Like being shot at happened...
...Because he felt that my Norplant decision was wrong. He passionately opposes birth control...