Ping!
Works for me.
People with these problems shouldn’t be having children.
Sounds like a good idea to me too. After all, nobody is forcing them.
Abort retarded babies, sterilize alcoholics (as a first step). Yet another step on the road back to Eugenics.
Wow.
“wonder how these unfortunate addicted people are going to use this $300 ... oh, that’s right.”
You’ll never stop them from being addicts, but you might stop some abortions and unwanted pregnancies.
Good idea, I hope they can get away with it.
The United States was the first country to concertedly undertake compulsory sterilization programs for the purpose of eugenics. The heads of the program were avid believers in eugenics and frequently argued for their program. They were devastated when it was shut down due to ethical problems. The principal targets of the American program were the mentally retarded and the mentally ill, but also targeted under many state laws were the deaf, the blind, people with epilepsy, and the physically deformed. Native Americans, as well as Afro-American women, were sterilized against their will in many states, often without their knowledge, while they were in a hospital for other reasons (e.g. childbirth). Some sterilizations also took place in prisons and other penal institutions, targeting criminality, but they were in the relative minority. In the end, over 65,000 individuals were sterilized in 33 states under state compulsory sterilization programs in the United States.
It's hard to justify programs like that after you've seen hills of corpses, so they lost popularity after WW2.
It's completely voluntary, and some of the methods offered are reversible. What's so offensive to the "dignity of a human person" ?
There's babies for adoption??? HOLY MOLY!!! I've gotta tell my brother about this! He's been waiting four years to get his adoption from the Philippines (another Christmas without children looks like it's in the cards this year.)
My friend here at work too, who's been trying for three years with no luck to adopt. He's going to have to pay $10,000 to get a Guatemalan kid.
The wife and I would LOVE to have another baby, but we figured it was such a task that it would be a dream deferred.
NYer, I can't thank you enough for posting this. I'm going to call this Harris person right now and ask for information on her adoption service!
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and didn’t just talk about
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‘Look, here’s what happened.’"
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I’m for this as well.
This way I don’t have to pay for their mostly illegitamate and uncared for children who then grow up and also become a burden and cost for society.
Do they have a similiar program for liberals?
This is a wonderful idea! It is too bad that this is not a requirement to become a welfare recipient.
Am I too late for the cash? I quit drinking 32 years ago and had a vasectomy 17 years ago. Does retroactive count?
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Victimless both parties consent. So I think it’s a good idea. Besides, if he/she cleans up and eventually becomes some upstanding member of the community they can always have a reverse tubal or vasectomy done.
I’m having a hard time finding a moral objection to this.
Sterilization can be reversed. I’m betting that most of those addicts only get pregnant by accident anyway and never really wanted the babies.
Better that than abortion or crack babies.
Sounds like an excellent program. Those opposing it should be prepared to pay to support the kids who would otherwise be born, since it’s highly unlikely their parents would be supporting them.