What I am saying is, you only know what you hear. You don’t know what the IUD situation is. You know what Ms Spears said.
Let’s just say for the sake of argument (and I am NOT saying this is what is happening here), that a person with schizophrenia has delusions. They tell the court “their truth”. It involves a plot that everyone involved with the conservatorship is conspiring against them and violating their basic human rights in horrific ways. It doesn’t make it true, but it makes them very very vulnerable.
Of course not being allowed to marry and being forced to have an IUD are human rights violations. Of course being forced to work when you neither want nor have to is a human rights violation. If that is what is happening, it is horrible. It is criminal. So, while I am suspicious about what is happening, and believe the conservatorship system is in serious need of reform, I have seen too many situations where things aren’t as they appear to make bold pronouncements. I am only suggesting that the media frenzy is compounding the situation.
It is worth noting that conservatorship statutory law, as written, does not allow the conservator to control the right to marry or have children. So either that is not happening (keep in mind Ms Spears is 39), or there are such extreme extenuating circumstances that the court issued an order about it (highly unlikely), or the conservator of the person and Ms Spears’ attorney and the court investigator are all in cahoots in hiding it from the judge. Or the judge is in on it, too. We don’t know which of those it is. But I find the cahoots theory the least plausible. Just saying, it is possible, just possible, that things aren’t happening how it is described in the press, or even by Ms Spears in court.
It is fine and appropriate to wonder why she is conserved. I certainly do, especially since the type of conservatorship she has is NOT for people with mental illnesses like bipolar and schizophrenia, etc. that require psychotropic meds. It is darned hard for families to get the court system to help them get care for their sick loved ones. The judge gets no additional pay or kick backs for famous people cases. Ms Spear does appear higher functioning, so why her? But we are not privy to her medical records, nor should we be. It could be that she really does have the ability to perform, and chooses to, but doesn’t have the ability to take care of her own health decisions. We really don’t know. All I am saying is approach the media reports with skepticism and reserve judgment. Just because the media reports it doesn’t make it true. The mountain of information we don’t know overwhelms the molehill of information we do.