Richard is My Boyfriend
Should
a woman with learning disabilities be sterilized to allow her
relationship to continue with sexual freedom? An innovative
‘reality drama’ from the same team who made last year's
Born With Two Mothers.
Anna Taylor is 24 and has a learning disability. To her mother she is a
child of 5 who should be kept away from men. But when she is rushed
into hospital, it is revealed that she has suffered a miscarriage. She
met Richard, the man who made her pregnant, at her Day Care Centre.
Richard has Downs Syndrome, and the care workers there encouraged the
relationship to develop.
Following the miscarriage, Anna's contraceptive options are severely
limited - sterilisation would be the procedure of choice. Is Anna's
relationship with Richard pleasurable and valuable or abusive and
illegal? Would sterilisation liberate her, or make her susceptible to
further abuse? A judge decides.
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