Alabama’s governor signed into law legislation that requires some sexual offenders to be chemically castrated before being released on parole.
Gov. Kay Ivey signed the bill Monday, which applies to sex offenders convicted of crimes involving children under 13 and who are eligible for parole.
Chemical castration involves taking medication to reduce testosterone, hormones and other chemicals that drive libido, the bill says. The parolees are required to start the treatment a month before they leave prison and continue treatment until the court determines it is no longer necessary.
This law differs in that parolees are required to pay for the cost of the treatment, but they cannot be denied parole if they are not able to pay.
The Alabama Civil Liberties Union pushed back against the legislation, saying that mandating chemical castration could violate the U.S. Constitution’s Eighth amendment, which forbids the use of cruel and unusual punishment.
This is horrifying. Government is playing God.
I am a female. I am a registered citizen for life (Florida 🙁 )
One month after being arrested, while sitting in jail awaiting court/sentencing, I was diagnosed with Stage 2 breast cancer, a very aggressive form no less. I have no history of any cancer in my family, nor any propensity. My DNA test indicated my children have 0 propensity. There was no explanation for it. However, due to my diagnoses, I lost both breasts to a double mastectomy. I then found a tumor in my uterus and had a complete hysterectomy and oopherectomy (ovaries). Point her…leave it to God. Politicians….SMH!! Too bad they are all bundled into this same SMH category. There are the very select few who don’t belong.
Yes what are they going to do when the accused is a woman ? If that punishment can’t be used than wouldn’t it be showing gender favoritism? It’s laws like this that will enable this to be forced to be taken up by the SCOTUS.
Sickness
Wow! this shows how messed up how the state of Alabama is and all the states that follow into Sorna…. It is truly amazing that there is 50 states and territories, but not even half of them are on the same page… Very sad that it seems that all the states are in Chaos. Sorna has given them a license to do what ever they want in there state and create ridiculous bills. God bless America and our constitution and what ever is left of it. Where all going to hell……
I know FAC tries to stay politically neutral, but come on. The source article states: “Gov. Kay Ivey, a Republican,” and “Republican State Rep. Steve Hurst introduced the bill.”
I believe that is much more a factor than the governor being a woman. It’s been my experience, the vast majority of people fighting the registry are women. This is another example of the barbarism accepted for one class of felon. When it comes to punishing “SOs,” nothing is too bizarre, extreme, or abstract.
The IML was created and passed under the democratic president Barack Obama and several more bills introduced and passed by democratic leaders as well in fact if you research it i am sure you will find more anti RSO bills created and passed by democrats that republicans. There is no real party when it comes to suppressing RSO’S just people looking to justify their position they were elected toby holding us down and screaming fire every time we are mentioned, that is why F.A.C Stays out of politics and tries to focus on helping us
Right – let’s stay off the politics.
For balance, I will point out that our own state’s most prolific sponsor of bad sex register legislation is a woman and a Democrat.
http://www.aol.com/article/news/2019/06/11/feds-nearly-1700-arrested-in-child-porn-abuse-crackdown/23747242/
this happened this week i wonder how many arrested will end up on the registry
Wow, i mean just Wow. truly a foot in the door before they allow it in every state to every one on the registry.
Doesn’t this sound like Hitlers policy when he was in power? Castrating the “undesirables”, Jews and who knows who else. This is a stupid thing. A few years ago, I didn’t give a temporary address to DMV, and the Sheriff came by and saw my burned house and I wasn’t there. The put out an arrest warrant for me and I went before a “Judge”. What he offered for this offense was 18 months prison or , wait for it, chemical castration. My question is, what good is the castration going to do to keep me from doing this horrible offense again. My only consolation is that at my age, I won’t have to put up with this garbage much longer. Also because of my past, I have been denied access to the Military Base here for that. I have been fighting for 8 years now to talk face to face with these individuals that barred me in the first place. May God have mercy on this nation.
Well the governor is a woman so no surprise here.