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Senate committee
endorses voluntary
inmate castration
AUSTIN (AP) — Prisoners re
peatedly convicted of molesting
children could undergo volun
tary surgical castration under a
bill unanimously approved
Wednesday by the Senate
Health and Human Services
Committee.
State Sen. Teel Bivins,
whose bill now heads to the full
Senate for consideration, said
he wants to help in the treat
ment of inmates who have “un
controllable urges” to sexually
abuse children.
“Some of these people have
said, T want to stop. I know that
I’m not going to be able to con
trol my urges when I get out of
prison,”’ said Bivins, R-Amarillo.
The measure was supported
by Dr. Walter Meyer, a psychia
trist, pediatrician and endocri
nologist who serves on the Coun
cil on Sex Offender Treatment;
and William Winslade, a lawyer
and psychoanalyst who has also
researched the subject.
But the idea was condemned
as “barbaric” by Arthur Caplan,
director of the Center for
Bioethics at the University of
Pennsylvania and author of a
new book about ethical issues in
medicine, “Moral Matters.”
“I think that you’re in a dan
gerous area when you let the
government punish you by tak
ing away your right and ability
to reproduce,” Caplan said in a
telephone interview.
No state surgically castrates
inmates, he said.
If an offender wishes to be cas
trated, Caplan said it should be
done through reversible, chemical
means — “taking a pill that basi
cally turns your hormones down.”
He said of surgical castration,
“Not only is it barbaric, but its
very irreversibility makes it
something that I think doctors
could not ethically do.
“It’s the same thing as saying
to thieves, ‘You can be in jail, or
we can chop your arms off,
therefore you will not have the
urge to shoplift,”’ said Caplan,
who added that there’s no guar
antee a castrated person would
n’t hurt children.
Bivins emphasized that his
bill is aimed at treatment, not
punishment. It would specifical
ly prohibit the use of castration
as part of a plea bargain or sen
tencing condition, he said.
Side effects of chemical cas
tration are worse and an offend
er would have to continue re
ceiving injections to control sex
ual urges, said James Hoard,
Bivins’ press secretary.
Bivins also noted that his bill
includes many restrictions, such
as required psychiatric evalua
tion and counseling for an in
mate who requests testicle re
moval. He said he knows the
concerns sparked by the idea of
castrating incarcerated people.
“The topic is kind of like nu
clear waste. Nobody wants to
hear about it or talk about it ...
and frankly, people tend to have
an emotional reaction when you
propose this idea,” Bivins told
the committee.
However, he said, the proce
dure has been used in other
countries, and studies indicate
that those who undergo it are
far less likely to repeat their
crimes. Caplan said such studies
aren’t conclusive.
Meyer, the psychiatrist, said
surgical castration “is extreme
ly effective in reducing sexual
activity.”
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