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...FRANCISCO--Violet the orangutan is on the pill. King L'ear the bison was rendered harmless with a bovine vasectomy And Maxine the cougar is using a Norplant-style implant...
Bolstered by polls that show strong support for their proposals, legislators in several states have introduced bills that would require convicted female drug addicts to choose between Norplant and jail...
...electric cord. What makes the Johnson case unusual is not the nature of her crime, which is all too common, but the choice offered her by the sentencing judge in Tulare County: the chance to cut her jail time if she agreed to the surgical implantation of Norplant, the new birth-control device that prevents conception for up to five years. That choice, which Johnson accepted and which many perceive as coercive, despite the ease with which Norplant can be removed, highlights a growing national debate about the proper balance between competing interests: the desire to protect individual liberties while...
...imposing it. "In the end, free people are going to decide for themselves how to act," says Roger Conner of the American Alliance for Rights & Responsibilities, a bipartisan public-interest group. "How they feel about a duty that may be imposed on them is crucial. Way before something like Norplant is coerced, there has to be serious education and the widespread availability of birth control. If those conditions are met, there is a far greater possibility that both the individual and society will accept imposition. A regime that reaches for the penalty first is close to being a police state...
...Kansas, state representative Kerry Patrick wants to take the law a step further. He has introduced a bill that would require convicted female addicts to accept Norplant birth-control inserts, which prevent pregnancies for up to five years, if they wish to avoid jail. Under the proposed law, the state would pay for the $500 procedure, and also for its removal if the woman stays clean for a year. Says Patrick: "I've gotten a lot of support from nurses who deal with crack babies. Once you see one, you don't care about the rights of the mother...