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- Title
Decision of the Supreme Court of New Jersey on the Sterilization Law.
- Abstract
The article presents information about the decision of the Supreme Court of New Jersey on the sterilization law. The artificial regulation of the welfare of society by means of surgical operations for the prevention of procreation being based upon the suppression of the personal liberty of; individuals must be accomplished, if at all, by a statute that does not deny to the persons thus injuriously affected the equal protection of the laws guaranteed by the fourteenth amendment to the constitution of the United States. That the statute in question was based upon a classification that bore no reasonable relation to the object of such police regulation, and hence denied to the individuals of the class so selected the equal protection of the laws guaranteed by the fourteenth amendment to the constitution of the United States. The question propounded is whether or not the statute under which the order now before us was made is a valid exercise of the police power. The statute is broad enough to authorize an operation for the removal of any one of these three organs essential to procreation. These organs are in pairs on either side of the body excepting the uterus, which is a single organ lying deep in the pelvis, back of the bladder.
- Subjects
NEW Jersey; STERILIZATION (Birth control) -- Law &; legislation; OPERATIVE surgery; LIBERTY; CONSTITUTIONAL amendments; NEW Jersey. Supreme Court; BIRTH control
- Publication
Journal of the American Institute of Criminal Law & Criminology, 1914, Vol 4, Issue 5, p733
- ISSN
0885-4173
- Publication type
Article