# Sterilisation of the intellectually disabled?

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**Created:** [June 19, 2003, 10:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sterilisation-of-the-intellectually-disabled/182891 "2003-06-19T10:28:13Z")\
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The attitude toward males was that, since they were institutionalised the only females they had contact with were the other patients and the staff. It wasn’t considered likely that a staff member would fell pregnant to a patient and the female patients were protected by the depo provera.

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