article_snippet.sent: Some have claimed this practice "evokes a dark corner of American history" where the mentally ill or "deficient" were forced to undergo sterilization.
article_snippet.sent: Female sterilization is linked to the controversial "eugenics" movement, which advocated for the notion that the human race can be improved by selective breeding of people with superior genes.
article_snippet.sent: But Buck dealt with involuntary sterilization of people because of involuntary sterilization of people mental disabilities, not because involuntary sterilization of people were being punished for a crime.
article_snippet.sent: You can hate sterilization, and the case may have the creepy feel of the antiquated practice of eugenics, but it's not that.
article_snippet.sent: Sterilization has to be somewhere below that, right?  
article_snippet.sent: Most of the sterilization defendants are men.
article_snippet.sent: What if I suggested sterilization for a person convicted of having sex with a minor?
article_snippet.sent: Of course, sterilization won't prevent a female sex offender from offending again, no more than sterilization will prevent a male offender from offending again.  
article_snippet.sent: But the point is, somehow, the notion of sterilizing a male criminal somehow sits better with our than sterilizing a female criminal.
article_snippet.sent: Why else has castration of men not been a blip on the radar, but offering a woman the option of sterilization is suddenly a travesty?  
article_snippet.sent: Overall, a lot more men commit acts that merit sterilization than do women.  