Her
motivation: a November newspaper column that outlines the death of Bradley
McGee, a 2-year-old from Lakeland who was murdered by his stepfather 15 years
ago while his mother watched. Storms' discussion of tubal
ligation and vasectomies came a day after reports about Ronnie Bernard Paris
Jr. being charged with first-degree murder and aggravated child abuse in the
death of his son.
``How much more?'' Storms asked. ``How can we not try?'' "I don't know that this will make a huge difference," County Commissioner Ronda Storms told Action News. "But if we enact it, it will do one thing to stop future children from being from being produced by these people who hate children and abuse children." "We may never end child abuse. But we can do something to protect children, and we have to act," Storms continued.
So, to end the child abuse on some children, Ronda, would have them never be born? Strange thinking, but, I guess it is less controversial than giving them an abortion. "This doesn't go to their sexual performance," Storms said. "It goes to their ability to have children."
Wow! Does she honestly think that will end child abuse? Well ok, for the ones Ronda would have not be born it does. But....gee...
What about the priests and clergy, who have no children but have access to them, that molest and abuse kids? Should we offer to sterilize them too? Should we suggest that child care workers or institution workers that abuse children be sterilized also? How about....anyone that has contact with children?
Dr.
Rosenthal, Ph.D. a psychiatrist, wrote, "... being barred from procreation
could have a different impact on a child abuser than it would have on someone
who can relate to children in a more positive manner. Child physical abuse
certainly implies an intense feeling of anger toward the victims but these
feelings are frequently not conscious. In fact, the behavior is often denied
or attempts are made to explain or justify any resulting injuries. Although
the urge to procreate is extremely strong in many people, there are also those,
both men and women, for whom this is not a vital need." "...An order
barring procreation is psychologically powerful for several reasons. By indicating
that there is something drastically wrong with this individual, such an order
attacks the abuser's denial system-that his behavior is not particularly out
of the ordinary. The abuser cannot be considered as a "normally" functioning
adult if he is denied the right to activities that can be engaged in by everyone
else." By sterilizing an abuser you are validating them.
Amazingly, Commissioners voted 7-0 to support legislation that would keep child abusers from having children. How Draconian! I wonder if they would also vote 7-0 to chop off a thieves hands if caught stealing?
Our county commissioners are steering Tampa down the path of eugenics.
Ostensibly we could come up with more effective ways of protecting children
from abuse than by limiting an abuser's reproductive rights. Nonetheless, the
attempt to prevent child abuse by limiting reproduction until one has gained
control over one's violent impulses is surely comprehensible without
resort to eugenic rationales. 
"Prison is a punishment that temporarily or permanently deprives people of their freedom. Moreover, a person serving a prison sentence not only loses his freedom of movement but will also generally have little opportunity to procreate. Thus, it would seem that a prison sentence would in almost every case remove a person's right to procreate along with the right to be free from confinement. What is the real purpose of this sterilization? The restriction on procreation, rather than addressing the abuser's problems, could be considered more of a punitive response. Does it therefore truly serve any useful purpose in dealing with child abuse?"
Can this sterilization be taken a step further? Will Ronda
Storms advocate the sterilization of others? Perhaps we can re-institute
the Eugenic Sterilization
Law, Ronda and the Tampa County Commissioners could be the administrator
of it. 
In 1914, Harry Laughlin (an advocate of sterilization) published a Model Eugenical Sterilization Law that proposed to authorize sterilization of the "socially inadequate" – people supported in institutions or "maintained wholly or in part by public expense. The law encompassed the "feebleminded, insane, criminalistic, epileptic, inebriate, diseased, blind, deaf; deformed; and dependent" – including "orphans, ne'er-do-wells, tramps, the homeless and paupers."
Ouch! Given Storms lack of sympathy for the homeless, perhaps they better hold on to thier privates! Yoiks! No, that would be banned here in Tampa!
Borrowing from Laughlin’s Model Law, the German Nazi government adopted a law in 1933 that provided the legal basis for sterilizing more than 350,000 people.
What is so apparent to me is that the commissioners do not understand that, even if sterilized, the desire to do harm to an unwilling adult or child will still be there. Sterilizing a person would not remove that compulsion. So even if the abuser did not have children, they would find a child or person to abuse, one that is not their own.