@Swede #23305
I can’t say for sure about the legality in the UK, but I do know that for some illnesses, parents in the US can have their daughters proactively sterilized. The one case I recall, but can’t place the name, was a girl who was fully paralyzed, and had a severe neurological development disorder that left her unable to even speak. They were in the process at the time have having her ovaries and uterus removed, for multiple reasons, including preventing pregnancy in case any future caretaker did less care and more taking. Also to prevent puberty and leave her body smaller, and more easy to lift, since she would require such care for the rest of her life.
There was opposition to it, some people thinking that there should never be any reason to do this to anyone without their specific consent. And of course they weren’t able to just go to any doctor to do this, there were court procedures to go through. I’m sure Sweden’s courts would give the same kind of consideration, and may also conclude this to be a case where a complete hysterectomy and oomphectomy (not sure the spelling at all, but removal of the ovaries) is warranted without specific consent of the individual.
Additionally, he’s not really wrong, on some points anyway, he just has no understanding of how he’s right. But on other points, he is dead wrong. Yes, we, and all animals, naturally engage in eugenics acts in determining our mates. And also at times in which children we allow to live. This is even actually a good thing at times, to prevent forcing a child to have to grow up (or not be able to grow up) with problems that will make their lives absolutely miserable. Not all problematic disorders should call for abortion, but there’s just absolutely no reason to require to bring to term a fetus you already know has ancephaly. No reason at all to force a mother to finish that pregnancy, go through the risk of child birth, for a baby who will die, hopefully without enough brain to even feel pain, possibly only feeling pain.