Are powerful figures in the RW supporting modern eugenics?

[ck4829]

"Ross saw a billboard for an organization that pays drug addicts $200 to get sterilized. Steven was inside her then. She eventually gave up her baby, but she knew she couldn't give up her addiction. The sign seemed to know this. It said you can stay on the pipe, just don't bring another baby into this world.

Ross got her tubes tied after giving up Steven. A short while later, she got a check in the mail, along with the numbers for some rehab centers."

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These are the kind of blunt-force tactics that Love's organization, Children Requiring a Caring Kommunity (CRACK, also called Project Prevention), uses to get its point across: Addicted people shouldn't reproduce. Their kids wind up in overcrowded foster homes where the public bears the burden of their outrageous medical bills.

So CRACK employs what representatives like Love call a simple, cost-effective solution: They pay addicts $200 to get sterilized or go on long-term birth control.

Founded in Southern California five years ago by a former IHOP waitress, CRACK has paid more than 800 addicts in 23 cities, including about 20 from Houston.

Love pursued a journalism degree in her native New Mexico but says she dropped out of junior college after her husband was killed in an oil field accident. She wound up supporting her son and herself by cutting hair.

She now directs the Houston chapter, which opened two years ago with funding from local philanthropist Jim Woodhill. He made his fortune in software and is on the short list of CRACK's major nationwide supporters. The list includes radio talk show host Dr. Laura Schlessinger and conservative Pittsburgh billionaire Richard Mellon Scaife.

http://www.houstonpress.com/issues/2003-02-27/feature.html

Combine this with the RW race to medicate all children and you could get a politically correct Holocaust.

[htuttle]

1. The Bush family has supported eugenicists for about 3 generations now

They seem to have an avid interest in it.

[lightbulb]

3. Then why do they continue to breed?

They are the most "undesirable" folks of all.

[RubyDuby in GA]

2. History repeats itself

Remember, Hilter loved the eugenics movement going on in America so much that he gave it's leader an honorary degree from the University of Berlin.

[NC_Nurse]

4. Ever take care of a crack baby?

I have. I have watched a few suffer and die.

I don't know that this is such a bad thing, frankly. If someone gets off crack, the sterilization can be reversed.

Flame away if you like.

[LeftyMom]

5. Sterilization reversals don't always work

and they cost a bundle.

You ought to know that, being a nurse.

[Ducks In A Row]

6. the only thing I oppose about this....

is there are thousands of childfree men and women who'd LOVE for someone to pay for their sterilization. Yet no one steps forward to help the childfree live their dream.

They shouldn't discriminate in who they will pay to be sterilized.

[damntexdem]

7. Is it eugenics?

It seems to be focused on social issues (e.g., raising of kids), rather than on genetics. If an animal stinks, does that necessarily mean that it's a skunk?

I wonder whether any addicts support their habits by showing up repeatedly to be 'sterilized.'