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M. Boies defines a criminal as one in whom two successive punishments,
according to law, have failed to prevent a third offence.
If such a criminal is a woman, she should be offered the alternative of
surgical sterility or incarceration during the child bearing period of
her life; if a man, his wife should be offered this remedy against the
procreation of criminals in exchange for her husband, on the expiry of
his sentence, or the protection of divorce.
No woman in the child-bearing period of life should be released from an
Asylum, until this operation has been performed. If a man is committed,
his wife should have the option of divorce or be sterilized before his
release.
A central Board should issue marriage certificates, after consideration
of confidential medical reports upon the health, physical condition, and
family history of the parties to a proposed marriage contract.
Medical officers should be appointed in the various centres of
population by the central Board, and fees on reports should be paid
after the manner of Life Insurance fees.
In fact the Life Insurance system would serve as a good model, for the
establishment of a system of marriage control, and if questions
involving a more detailed family history were added to a typical Life
Insurance report form, it could hardly be improved upon, for the
purpose of marriage health reports.
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