Sterilizing Drug Addicts

Washington Times | Liz Trotta

[humblegunner]

I don't understand the Lysol picture

Disinfect = Sterilize.
Not one of my better allegories, I'm afraid.

[per loin]

Aside from Eric Cartman, has any child of a smack or crack whore ever added meaningfully to our society?

[rellimpank]

--I can bend that far--

[Hemingway's Ghost]

Aside from Eric Cartman, has any child of a smack or crack whore ever added meaningfully to our society?

Funny, but I believe at least one member of the Pats (I won't name names until I can confirm it) grew up with a crack mother, and without him we wouldn't have won the Superbowl last year.

[Fudd]

What's not to like? Well, what happens ten years down the road when a former 18-year-old junkie is now a clean and sober 28-year-old who wants a family? In a perfect world, one can argue that she made her decision voluntarily. But we live in a world where people are suing McDonald's because they're too *** lazy (stupid, whatever) to eat less and exercise more. What's to stop a lawyer from arguing that this poor lady was not responsible for her choice, it was her habit that made her do this?

If I were the outfit doing this, I would make sure that my clients have had face time with a counselor to explain all the consequences of this choice.

[GovernmentShrinker]

During the Soviet era, one Western study found that the average Russian woman had 9 in her lifetime. The communist government refused to "waste" money on manufacturing contraceptives (always need more tanks and missiles, ya know), so abortion was the only option. And I can just about guarantee that it was always performed without anesthesia, since even in the 1970s-80s Soviet hospitals didn't "waste" money on anesthesia for women giving birth. Soviet women REALLY didn't want to bring more children into that dehumanizing society.

Of course, to hear the rabid anti-abortion crew tell it, one abortion is likely to render a woman sterile for life. The facts are a little different . . .

[Paleo Conservative]

Is having 15 by one woman even possible?

I bet if eyou saw a picture of her, you would have a hard time believing anyonone would want to get her pregnant.

[GovernmentShrinker]

This group also offers the option of reversible methods like Norplant (when it was still available) and IUDs.

[MrLeRoy]

Of course, to hear the rabid anti-abortion crew tell it, one abortion is likely to render a woman sterile for life.

I never heard anyone claim that.

[riri]

re your post #9:

I swear I read the headline and for some reason that is exactly the definition of sterilizing I thought of. So, I immediately had this visual of someone hosing down a bunch of junkies or something. And actually, I said to myself-"hmmm, not a bad idea".

[humblegunner]

I immediately had this visual of someone hosing down a bunch of junkies or something.

At least someone gets my humor!!!

[Jhoffa_]

People getting voluntarily sterilized is, imho, their own business.

This concerns me however because I am worried that t may be seen as a means to an end by some. The nazi's had a throey about "worthless [human] life" which ran along these lines and, like all bad, tyranical and dangerous ideas, someone at some point will attept to revive it.