Judge cancels order to reduce sentences for birth control

[Judi Lynn]

Source: Associated Press

Updated 5:53 pm, Friday, July 28, 2017


SPARTA, Tenn. (AP) A Tennessee judge's plan to encourage birth control among prisoners once they are released has sputtered, only two months into the program.

General Sessions Judge Sam Benningfield was offering sentence reductions for men who got free vasectomies and women who agreed to receive free Nexplanon implants, which prevent pregnancy for up to four years.

But the plan introduced in May was unpopular with the State Health Department, the American Civil Liberties Union and some lawmakers. The Health Department notified the court this month that the state would no longer offer free birth control or vasectomies to White County inmates, news outlets reported.

Benningfield reversed his order on Wednesday. He said the 32 women and 38 men who agreed to birth control would still receive 30 days of jail credit, regardless of whether they had undergone the procedure.

Read more: http://www.chron.com/news/medical/article/Tennessee-judge-rescinds-sterilization-for-jail-11655592.php

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Judge Sam Benningfield

[still_one]

1. Echos of the third reich

[Equinox Moon]

2. Why repeal free birth control? Only repeal the forced/ negotiated one.

[NickB79]

3. Exactly.

[dembotoz]

4. So what about those already treated...do they get a whoopsie... changed our minds

[Igel]

6. That's automatic if you're female.

The implants not only can be removed, they automatically fail after so many years.

[J_William_Ryan]

5. The order is un-Constitutional.