A Modern Plan for Eugenics

[Scriblerus the Philosophe]

Louisiana lawmaker advocates eugenics: Sterilize poor women, encourage rich to procreate

The New Orleans Times-Picayune reports that state Rep. John LaBruzzo (R) said yesterday that "he is studying a plan to pay poor women $1,000 to have their Fallopian tubes tied." LaBruzzo worries that people receiving food and housing assistance "are reproducing at a faster rate than more affluent, better-educated residents":

    He said he is gathering statistics now. ... "What I'm really studying is any and all possibilities that we can reduce the number of people that are going from generational welfare to generational welfare," he said.

    He said his program would be voluntary. It could involve tubal ligation, encouraging other forms of birth control or, to avoid charges of gender discrimination, vasectomies for men. It also could include tax incentives for college-educated, higher-income people to have more children, he said.

LaBruzzo said that mainstream strategies against poverty, such as education and family planning, "have repeatedly failed to solve the problem," according to the Times-Picayune. "I don't know if it's a viable option...Of course people are going to get excited about it," he said of his plan.

Mind you, this man's district sent a KKK member to the state legislature in 1989.


Edited for link error   ~Griffin

[Darlica]

 



Now, how about funding proper sex-ed. in the schools instead?
And free or at least subsidized contraceptive pills for all women under 23 (we had that for many years it took down the numbers of teen pregnancies dramatically)

[Sibling Zono (anon1mat0)]

Back to a modest proposal? 

[Griffin NoName]

I see problems. If you are very stupid and rich you will soon be poor. This is too complex a proposal. Murdering feeble infants makes more sense.