Tuesday, July 19, 2005

Do you lobotomy?

Question:
If doctors could precisely remove the part of the brain responsible for the sex drive of violent sexual offenders and pedophiles, would you be in favor of lobotomies just for this purpose?
Please read on before answering…….

California has just built it’s 4th prison for violent sexual offenders. Coalinga State Hospital will house 1,500 inmates who would otherwise be released. In the U.S.A. alone there are 491,720 REGISTERED sex offenders. 1 of 3 girls and 1 of 6 boys will become victim to a pedophile.
There’s a new book in town! According to an article by Linda A. Johnson, "The Lobotomist" by Walter J. Freeman claims that of the estimated 50,000 Americans who were lobotomized during the 1930s - 1970s, 10% were helped. While that's definately nothing to brag about, the book is causing a new stir in the lobotomy debate. The subject was revisited as recently as July, 14 in the New England Journal of Medicine.
Did you know that even Rosemary Kennedy, President Kennedy’s mildly retarded sister, had a lobotomy? She was only 23 in 1940, when the procedure was performed, and was institutionalized until her death in January, 2005.
Lobotomies were pioneered in 1936 by Portuguese neurologist Egas Moniz & he was awarded the Nobel Prize in 1949. Family members of those rendered incapacitated, as a result of a lobotomy, want Moniz’s 1949 Nobel Prize and words of praise on the Nobel web site to be removed. That's not likely to happen. More information about this can be found at psychosurgery.org.
How does the past tie in with the present? We’ve come a long way since the 1970s. Population growth, medical progress and most concerning, more children being hurt or murdered at the hands of pedophiles. What if we now have medical knowledge to perform lobotomies & it wouldn’t incapacitate the bastards? Are you in favor?
Yes?
No?
Why?

posted by jane at 4:21 PM