Hysterectomy to stop menstruation in mentally handicapped women

Abstract

The research answered its main question: What is the legal ruling on hysterectomy for the mentally disabled women in order to stop the menstruation? In order to answer that, it aimed at clarifying the image of the issue at hand, defining the mentally handicapped, reviewing the benefits and harms resulting from the process, and clarifying the legal ruling for it. The originality of the issue under study emerges as one of the innovations in jurisprudential medical issues that actually occur. The research followed the descriptive method, with the benefit of the inductive and analytical method. It is divided into three sections; It dealt with: introductions and precursors to the definition of research terms, facts and medical studies that pave the way for understanding the issue and its medical background, then the legal theory of the human relationship with his body and the rooting of the issue of the organ removal, then the jurisprudential opinions regarding the removal of the womb of the mentally handicapped to stop the menstruation and the evidence for each opinion and the weighting between them. The research concluded with results, the most important of which are: that international medical studies confirm the absence of an ideal strategy to stop menstruation without serious consequences, whether by surgical intervention or non-surgical alternatives, and that doctors and jurists are between a prohibition and permission to this surgery. The researcher suggested banning the operation for medical and legal reasons, the most important of which are: the side effects it causes and because its harms are greater than its interests. Key words: hysterectomy, disabled-women, mentally, menstrual.