Each year over 200,000 people in the United States become victims of sexual assault. According to the Rape, Abuse, and Incest National Network, someone in the US is sexually abused every one to two minutes. One in every six women will be raped during her lifetime. The Justice Department estimates that about 1.9 per 1000 children will be raped or assaulted (morality play p.17). Sex offenders who are convicted more than once are given Depo Provera. It is a drug designed as birth control for women and lowers the sex drive of the offenders by lowering testosterone levels. A few states including California and Florida permit these injections. Texas allows the physical castration for male sex offenders if the meet certain conditions including males 21 years or …show more content…
The ACLU contends that chemical castration violates an offender's implied right to privacy under the Fourteenth Amendment, rights of due process and equal protection, and the Eighth Amendment's ban of cruel and unusual punishment” (find law). The male sex offenders could’ve opted to be chemically castrated if living in a state where it was allowed. This would’ve been a sacrifice to their personal interests because the interest of the offender was to in fact sexually offend another individual. This would’ve in turn made the offender less likely to repeat their act because their testosterone levels would’ve been decreased. In Kantian Deontological ethics it is said “to act morally is to act for the sake of duty, and duties are obligations or imperatives issued by reason itself” (Alexander). In this situation the simple act of opting for the chemical castration without it being forced upon them imposes the deontological aspect upon the individual. The offender would be acting morally because they chose the castration themselves in order to prevent themselves from doing