Drug addicts are being paid cash to undergo sterilisation. Drug addicts across the UK are being offered money to be sterilised by an American charity.
Project Prevention is offering to pay £200 to any drug user in London, Glasgow, Bristol, Leicester and parts of Wales who agrees to be operated on. The first person in the UK to accept the cash is drug addict “John” from Leicester who says he “should never be a father”. The move has been criticised by some drug charities who work with addicts. Project Prevention founder Barbara Harris admitted her methods amounted to “bribery”, but said it was the only way to stop babies being physically and mentally damaged by drugs during pregnancy.
Drug treatment charity Addaction estimates one million children in the UK are living with parents who abuse drugs. Pregnant addicts can pass on the dependency to the unborn child, leading to organ and brain damage. Mrs Harris set up her charity in North Carolina after adopting the children of a crack addict. After paying 3,500 addicts across the United States not to have children, she is now visiting parts of the UK blighted by drugs to encourage users to undergo “long-term birth control” for cash.
John, a 38-year-old addict from Leicester, is the first person in the UK to accept money to have a vasectomy after being involved in drugs since he was 12. He said: “It was something that I’d been thinking about for a long time.
“I won’t be able to support a kid; I can just about manage to support myself.”
The question is..should people who cannot care for their children (financially or otherwise) be allowed to procreate? Maybe if it’s voluntary it’s OK, but how long will it remain that way? It seems we have been down this slope before.
Sounds good to me. Something over 90% of the folks born into poverty NEVER escape the cycle. Sounds like an effective way to reduce poverty. Most of us here give up eight to ten hours a day, five days a week to be able to do what we want the rest of the time. If you are destined to be one of the Totally Useless (TM) I don’t see why they shouldn’t give something else up, if they decide to. And I can see offering incentives for them to drop out of the gene pool. If things like gambling are legal, I don’t see the problem with this. Caveat Emptor.
Good. Tie their tadpole tubes and rip out their womanly bits.
Anyone who would willingly accept a cash payment to be sterilized has no place procreating in the first place.
Give them a bonus if they haven’t yet been irresponsible as to bring a child into this world already.
After all, a child just takes takes takes, but a nice shiny new plasma TV keeps giving.
#19 actually I LOVE the idea of voluntary eugenics for the druggies, I’m saddened by the idea of abortion, but still ultimatley pro choice.
I’m disgusted that people with such moronic beliefs as the sky-daddy worshipers are met with anything but scorn and ridicule by otherwise intelligent society. It’s pitiful that so great a country as the US should be so mentally retarded by so primitive and ridiculess ideas.
The same “Project Prevention” started doing this out here in Hawaii earlier this year too, but for $300: http://www.khon2.com/news/local/story/Sterilization-Program-Hits-Oahu-Streets/A2ZXr_bfnEWpBg7lh2tirg.cspx