[Mad_as_heck]

I understand your position.

However, there is no excuse for a child being born addicted to drugs. I feel great compassion for anyone trapped in the nightmare of addiction but the safety of the child- and any potential future children- must be society’s first concern.

I do not want the government interfering in people’s private affairs without very great cause. However, once a man or woman has been proven to have abused or neglected children there is no reason whatsoever for them to have additional children (or to have the care of children) until they have PROVEN they will care for those children properly.

I am absolutely opposed to abortion and recommend self-control as the best form of birth control. Sadly, however, we are talking about women with psychiatric and/or addition problems that make them untrustworthy with regard to voluntary abstinence from sexual activity or self-administration of birth control.

So if I had my druthers they are getting the Norplant or something similar until their act is demonstrably cleaned up....

[Mrs. Don-o]

No one has any right to force contraception or sterilization (whether temporary or permanent) upon an unwilling woman -— or man.

There’s a great deal of opiate dependency here in East Tennessee (both IV and oral) and forcing the implantation of a contraceptive such as Norplant would require totalitarian controls and the corruption of those in the medical profession conscripted as enforcers.

Any coerced contraception is a grave violation of human dignity, and leads by a short route to such atrocities as forced eugenic sterilization (as in Buck vs Bell) and wholesale brutalities such as population suppression in Communist China.

This is one of the big reasons why we have to get did of Obamacare, isn’t it? To keep medical decisions out of the hands of the State?