Today Alabama enacted a law that will require, as a condition of parole, that some convicted child sex offenders undergo “chemical castration.”
The new law will mean that those who abused children under the age of 13 will be injected with hormone-blocking drugs before leaving prison. The medication will have to be administered until a judge, not a doctor, deemed it no longer necessary.
A new law for child sex offenders harkens back to a time when much less was known about human sexuality.A new law for child sex offenders harkens back to a time when much less was known about human sexuality
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