Chapter 5.A: Reproductive Rights and the Right to Procreate

For more on the legal and ethical issues surrounding chemical castration of male sex offenders, see Lystra Batchoo, Voluntary Surgical Castration of Sex Offenders: Waiving the Eighth Amendment Protection from Cruel and Unusual Punishment, 72 Brook. L. Rev. 689 (2007); Karen Harrison, Legal and Ethical Issues When Using Antiandrogenic Pharmacotherapy with Sex Offenders, 3 Sexual Offender Treatment (2008); Marnie E. Rice & Grant T. Harris, Is Androgen Deprivation Therapy Effective in the Treatment of Sex Offenders?, 17 Psychol. Pub. Pol’y & L. 315 (2011); Catherine Rylyk, Note: Lest We Regress to the Dark Ages: Holding Voluntary Surgical Castration Cruel and Unusual, Even for Child Molesters, 16 Wm. & Mary Bill Rts. J. 1305 (2008).