According to the most recent National Animal Health Monitoring System study, 68.5% of U.S. sheep farms castrate their ram lambs (though fewer do in the Eastern U.S.). It is not known what percentage ...

BATON ROUGE, La. - Surgical castration is now a possibility for a person who is found guilty of a sex crime against a child in Louisiana. State lawmakers apprpoved the measure Monday that would allow ...

BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) — Louisiana has become the first state where judges can order offenders guilty of certain sex crimes against children to undergo surgical castration under a bill signed into law ...

The bill, if signed by the governor, would be the first state law to allow a judge to order surgical procedures for those who commit sex crimes against children. By David W. Chen When State ...

Baton Rouge, La. — Louisiana judges could order surgical castration for people convicted of sex crimes against young children under legislation approved Monday, and if Republican Gov. Jeff Landry ...