Summary: Skinner V. Oklahoma

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1942 Skinner v. Oklahoma states that procreation is a fundamental constitutional right. In 2008 judge Charlie Baird sentenced Felicia Salazar to a probationary term of ten years for injury to her 19-month-old child. After the child’s father beat the adolescent Felicia failed to seek medical attention for her child which greatly disturbed the judge. This led to the judge adding a strange condition to the probationary conditions. Judge Baird told her she was not allowed to conceive or bear a child during her probationary sentence. In 2012 Judge Tim Boyle ordered 44-year-old Corey Curtis to stop procreating until he could support his nine children which were fathered by six different women. Owing $90,000 in child support he was conditioned to a three-year probationary judgement. The questions that surfaced from this controversial topic are; did judges Baird and Boyle’s …show more content…

So that being said, I believe that Salazar and Curtis’s constitutional rights were broken and they should be able to procreate when or with anyone they want if consensual. To be human is to love, and some would say to love you have to procreate. It is a human need to be close to someone and to have sex. Even with birth control we cannot allows prevent pregnancy’s. So therefore, these judges were demanding these people not to partake in intercourse which is against our rights as Americans. NYU press stated, “without sex, the human race cannot endure. The survival of the United States, in particular, depends upon sex.” (Sex and the Constitution, Page 1). If we are to enforce judgments we need to make for everyone to follow. Those judges took away their rights to create life, therefore took away their rights to be human. I believe the judgement for Salazar should have been that she is not allowed to be the guardian for her child. I believe that Curtis should have been forced to be put on a payment plan to support his

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