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Originally Posted by Azure
Can it be proven beyond a medical certainty that if he doesn't get the surgery he will commit suicide? Because a 'valid' reason for surgery in prison, especially for a convicted murderer, should be that if a certain operation isn't done, the prisoner will die.
Just as an example, being highly at risk for a heart attack is a valid reason for bypass surgery. Even for an inmate. And the state should be responsible for funding that surgery.
But it seems rather subjective to say that if prisoner x doesn't get GRS, he will commit suicide, if prisoner x is a convicted murderer.
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So certain death is the only reason that medical treatment should be administered to inmates?
I will repeat again, I am totally for inmates receiving medical treatment by paying for it, but that's not way the system is and as a result all medically necessary procedures should be covered, not just the ones that don't make people uncomfortable when they hear about them.