Post by culpam on May 17, 2006 16:51:14 GMT -5
“The announcement by NSW Premier Iemma of a ban on semen storage is the clearest example yet of politicians prepared to do anything to be seen to be tough on crime” said Brett Collins of Justice Action.
“The law and order machine is running over the rights of motherhood. The unborn child of a prisoner is regarded as being of no worth, the right of the wife in the community to have extend her family beyond a single child, or to have a family at all, have all been disregarded in this expression of political opportunism.
“Mr Iemma has taken us to conditions before the creation of the penal colony, less than slaves, with his hand throttling a prisoner’s penis, and proudly telling the public about it”