CHAPTER XXIII

VASECTOMY, OR STERILIZATION, BY STATE LAW

The States that have this law. Reasons for the law. Hereditary transmission of certain diseases. The operation. Its effects. Restoration of the function of the interrupted vas deferens. Vasectomy and impotence. Onanism. Vasectomy effects impotence from the moral point of view. Other conditions in the male that effect moral impotence. Immorality of artificial impregnation. Vasectomy a grave mutilation. Vasectomy as ordinarily practised is illicit. The State and vasectomy. The limitations of the State's dominion. The State surgeon and vasectomy. Bibliography 245-268