Abstract
Dyer predicts that a decision by the House of Lords authorizing the contraceptive sterilization of a severely retarded 17-year-old girl called Jeannette may bring to court many similar cases that previously would have been quietly decided by parents and physicians. The law lords rejected the Canadian Supreme Court's conclusion in a recent case, Re Eve, that sterilization of a mentally handicapped person for nontherapeutic purposes should never be authorized. Instead, the British decision found compelling reasons for the sterilization in Jeannette's developmental and behavioral characteristics and in the contraindications for other forms of contraception in her case. The lords chose not to commit themselves on whether the court would be able to act if she were no longer a minor.
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