Posted on 05/16/2005 4:51:32 AM PDT by KidGlock
She could adopt?
That is you solution?
How is this recycling the news?
The state of NC is currently considering a bill to provide financial reparations.
Kind of amazing that they let a 13 year old keep the child. There's something missing here...someone who might know more. Did her mother recently die (The one person that knew the real story?)
Raped and then labeled promiscuous and feeble minded. Gotta love liberal rape crisis therapy back in the day.
Why is it amazing?
Yeah no kidding :(
This may not be the most popular sentiment of all time, but I think chronic welfare recipients, at some point, should be given the option of subcutaneous implant contraceptives (like Norplant) or get the heck off the system. Welfare as a husband is not a good plan to raise a family.
For more information on better living and less taxation through chemistry follow this link: http://www.indiana.edu/~health/norplant.html
I am amazed at the comments here.
I thought this thread would be a discussion of Planned Parenthood, Margret Sanger, etc.
But we have "conservatives" here defending the practice.
Ugh!
Optional but not without people even knowing it... besides this lady was raped. What does welfare have to do with this story.
I'm sure Democrats will say that since it took place in North Carolina it must be a program insidiously carried out by Christian fundamentalists or something. People like Planned Parenthood advocates and such -- all disciples of the Great Eugenicist Margaret Sanger -- can't bring themselves to explain what they're actually up to, but it's ure easier to hand out condoms and secure free abortions than what they did between '24 and '74. Giving freebies to the poor is seen as a good thing, even saintly, but they'd get bad press for sterilization without consent.
They're playing the same games, just a different way.
Also tired of the media attributing wrongs to "America" or "this country", as if it was an integral part of the nation's fabric.
It may not be easy to understand, but for some people, having their own child is vitally important.
My wife and I have one child now and one on the way. Having the first one was difficult enough. I've always thought if we could not have any children that we could always adopt. My wife seriously disagrees with that line of thinking. For her, adoption is not an option. She wants her own children. I'm not sure I completely understand why but I respect her wishes.
Yes, if it's a choice of the recipient. Not if Big Brother makes that decision.
The Democrats have never lost control of North Carolina, at the state level. The current state legislature is filled with Democrats and RINOs. I've lived almost my whole life just over the border from Charlotte, NC, and I've seen it all.
I agree. Of course in this case, we both agree it's unacceptable. And I don't care how stupid or ignorant someone is, no one has the right to make the call that they shouldn't have children.
But yes, if you take excessive aid from the state for multiple children born out of wedlock, I think sterilization is a good idea.
The Perquimans County Department of Public Welfare took custody of Jessie and her seven siblings. They sent five of the children to an orphanage an hour's drive away in Oxford. Jessie and another sister were sent to live with their grandmother, just down the street from their parents' home. That house, too, was dilapidated and crowded.
Shortly after moving in with her grandmother, Jessie said, an older man impregnated her. She was 13.
"All I remember is that it hurt," she said.
Jessie's grandmother, Maggie "Miss Peaches" Woodard, was on welfare, and her social worker learned during a routine visit that Jessie was pregnant. The white social worker with the county welfare department, the late Marion Payne, pressed Woodard to consent to have Jessie sterilized. Finally, Woodard, who is illiterate, signed her "X" on a consent form.
"I didn't know what I was signing," Woodard, 86, said recently. But she said Payne told her that if she didn't sign, Jessie would have to go live in an orphanage.
http://extras.journalnow.com/againsttheirwill/parts/one/printstory2.html
The biannual eugenics board report for 1966 to 1968 shows that 99 percent of the operations were performed on women; 64 percent of those were on black women. From 1929 to 1940, the ratio had been almost the opposite - an overall racial split of 79 percent white and 21 percent black.
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