article_snippet.sent: (CNN)Recently, Nashville's district attorney banned prosecutors from offering female sterilization in plea deals.
article_snippet.sent: There has been public outrage at the notion that a defendant in America in 2015 would be offered a choice of sterilization as part of a plea deal.
article_snippet.sent: Present-day sterilization plea deals involve a voluntary choice of sterilization by persons accused of a crime, and for whom sterilization will be part of sterilization punishment.
article_snippet.sent: Sterilization statutes have been around for a while as punishment for defendants all over the country, and defendants have willingly chosen the procedure.
article_snippet.sent: If sterilization plea deals are likely constitutional, and we've been doing it for a while,
article_snippet.sent: Are sterilization plea deals morally right?  
highlights_snippet.sent: Nashville's district attorney banned prosecutors from offering female sterilization in plea deals .
  
highlights_snippet.sent: Present-day sterilization plea deals are voluntary and unlike creepy antiquated practices .