Posted on 09/24/2008 6:17:59 AM PDT by TornadoAlley3
Worried that welfare costs are rising as the number of taxpayers declines, state Rep. John LaBruzzo, R-Metairie, said Tuesday he is studying a plan to pay poor women $1,000 to have their Fallopian tubes tied.
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What an idiot - and this guy’s a Republican?
Here’s an easier solution: If you stop paying them to have babies on welfare, they might just stop having babies on welfare.
I think it is brilliant.
It sure beats paying them to have babies (welfare)
I bet you that this will be perceived as racist. But meanwhile, when Planned Parenthood wants to kill the babies of poor black women, it is doing something “noble”.
I wonder how many gynecologists contributed to this guy’s campaign?
Idiot. Get in bed with Margaret Sanger Meade and shut the heck up.
Just stop p0aying for all those babies and the “poor” woman will get her tubes tied without the extra thou...
Right now the offspring are an income source...
Margarat Sanger would be proud of how the eugenics movement is started to regain traction.
I don’t have a problem with this at all. No reason to have a child brought into this world because the mother needs a bigger check. This is a voluntary program and I am all for it.
This was an idea brought up by a woman in the private sector, and the private sector is where it needs to stay.
Any time a government “option” is put into play, it can become a government “requirement”.
No, bad idea for any politician to think about.
disgusting
wouldn’t it be easier to just not give them money in the first place?
I’m all for it. I’m sorry, but I’d rather they prevent unwanted pregnancy than kill their baby later. It does nothing about diseases, and would probably promote the spread, but I’m in save-the-baby mode right now like I never thought possible. Something must be done and this is a reasonable start. We’ve all got to start being reasonable. I realize the Catholic portion of our team will hate this, and I’m sorry. And I respect that.
I have no such misgivings. Who do I call to lend my support and financial aid?
Where do they find these idiots?
These women are way too stupid and too cheap to get their tubes tied on their own, but wave a little money in their face and they probably will do it. I’ll bet they would do it for a couple hundred bucks in coupons for booze and smokes.
That said, poor people have babies in every country in the world, and always have. Our grandparents and great-grandparents had babies when they were poor: that accounts for our every existence. That's why there is human life on earth. And human life one earth is a good thing: remember?
That said, don't think I'm an advocate of poor women being reduced to a degrading state of lifelong welfare dependency. The solutions for women are marriage and employment. As always.
I agree. Tubal ligation should be free to any poor person, black, white, or red — funded by nonprofits. I’d love to be a part of that kind of organization. That’s the best way I know to immediately impact the abortion rate in this country!
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