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DeepSoulSheepGOLD Member
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Location: Berlin, Ireland


Posted:
Found this on the news this morning. Anybody else find this disturbing. Freewill to make life changing decisions while addicted to a substance. What if a person cleaned up there act to find themselves sterlised....

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Pink...?BRONZE Member
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Location: Over There, United Kingdom


Posted:
That is awful

She compared the woman to dogs saying that they have litters of children and so on.

People need to help those woman get clean not stop then having children.

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KatBRONZE Member
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2,211 posts
Location: London, Wales (UK)


Posted:
Offering them contraceptive implants is a good idea but its not for the benefit of the user or the unborn child.

quote:
"If they spend the $200 on drugs, they spend it on drugs. It's none of our business what they do with the money we give them."
Wow - harsh!! How on earth are these people allowed to get away with it

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- W B Yeats


Raymund Phule (Fireproof)Enter a "Title" here:
2,905 posts
Location: San Diego California


Posted:
This woman... damn I think she is on crack. The sad part is, there is nothing illeagle about a program like this. If she wants to throw $200 away to get drug addicts not to have children then she is well within her rights.

I dont agree with drugs and I feel her $200 would be better spent on trying to help these woman clean up their lives, but who am I to say what she does with her own money?


On a side note, this should really be moved to a differnt area of discussion, it has nothing to do with war.

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DioHoP Mechanical Engineer
729 posts
Location: OK, USA


Posted:
Wow, prickly issue for sure!

I'll play Devil's Advocate here and say the idea's a good one. Why? Because the criticisms are way out of line in the way they portray the program.

These people are not being tranquilized and dragged to a doctor, nor are they dragged kicking and screaming. They are made aware of the choice, and go of their own accord.

Critics blast the program as "eugenics" and "racist," (implying genocide) but is it really? The ad on the article mentioned 4 different forms of birth control, 3 of which were reversible (IUD, Depo-Provera, and Norplant) or, at the very least, temporary. Hardly what I would call "sterilization." Someone at that point in their life could arguably use the temporary birth control methods until they are past their addiction and ready for children, and the situation is much better off for both parent and child.

People, please realize this is not bribing a desperate, drug-addicted woman to give up her ability to bear children permanently. While some may make that particular choice, there exist options that are nowhere near as permanent (Norplant lasts around 5 years, Depo Provera lasts about 3 months, an IUD can be removed at any time).

Having a child while you're trying to get through addiction only makes it that much harder and adds stress to your life that you don't need. The child could have to endure birth defects the rest of its life if the mother uses substances while pregnant. If the mother doesn't want the child and puts it up for adoption, that's one more kid without a home or a family, and no kid deserves that.

And honestly... $200? Most of those procedures cost significant amounts of money - I can't see any gain in that.

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KatBRONZE Member
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Location: London, Wales (UK)


Posted:
Dio - agree that offering choice of long term contraceptives is a good idea. I suppose I'm not one to preach about ideals as I think people should have to apply for a license before they have a child. Clearly a drug addict is not going to make a fit parent. Its a shame though that there are no efforts there to help the addict too The founder shows a disgust towards all drug users and their offspring. What next - offering money for sterilisation to knackers, football hooligans, essex girls

Hmmm.. maybe that would not be such a bad idea

Come faeries, take me out of this dull world, for I would ride with you upon the wind and dance upon the mountains like a flame.

- W B Yeats


DomBRONZE Member
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Location: Bristol, UK


Posted:
I'm wit Dio. The theory of long term contraception is good - if you're a drug addict desperate for $200, then having a child is not a good thing to be doing.

But it is a shame that she proves no help to those she's giving $200 to. Like a lot of ultra conservatives, cares little for someone in a bad situation as they see it as one of their own making.

A quote: "Probation officers, social workers and those who work on drug treatment programmes are increasingly referring their clients to us."
So hopefully some of these people are also getting proper help with their addiction.

onewheeldaveGOLD Member
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Location: sheffield, United Kingdom


Posted:
Dio's made some perceptive observations, particularly the fact that the majority of forms of contraception offered are not permanant.

It's a real shame that a biased article can rally such support by simply mentioning words like 'Nazi Germany' and 'eugenics'.

Where sympathy for crack addicts is concerned, I feel a lot more of it for the thousands of children who have no choice whatsoever about their formative years spent in a filthy, dangerous and uncaring environment.

Undoubtably a large percentage of the next generation of crack addicts will come from just such a background.

As for spending the money to help the addicts, anyone is able to form a group to help addicts if they wish; clearly Ms Harris (who runs the service) has her own ideas of the best way to help the problem and has put in the effort necessary to carry it out.

She seems to sum up the issue here: -

"It's just nonsense. Nobody is forcing these people to do anything - it's their own decision. What infuriates me is that if my critics don't think these people are capable of making their mind up on an issue like this, why on earth do they think they are capable of bringing up a child?"

Has anyone considered that the addicts who have made use of this service may have done it because they genuinly don't want to have children?

"You can't outrun Death forever.
But you can make the Bastard work for it."

--MAJOR KORGO KORGAR,
"Last of The Lancers"
AFC 32


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onewheeldaveGOLD Member
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3,252 posts
Location: sheffield, United Kingdom


Posted:
Dio's made some perceptive observations, particularly the fact that the majority of forms of contraception offered are not permanant.

It's a real shame that a biased article can rally such support by simply mentioning words like 'Nazi Germany' and 'eugenics'.

Where sympathy for crack addicts is concerned, I feel a lot more of it for the thousands of children who have no choice whatsoever about their formative years spent in a filthy, dangerous and uncaring environment.

Undoubtably a large percentage of the next generation of crack addicts will come from just such a background.

As for spending the money to help the addicts, anyone is able to form a group to help addicts if they wish; clearly Ms Harris (who runs the service) has her own ideas of the best way to help the problem and has put in the effort necessary to carry it out.

She seems to sum up the issue here: -

"It's just nonsense. Nobody is forcing these people to do anything - it's their own decision. What infuriates me is that if my critics don't think these people are capable of making their mind up on an issue like this, why on earth do they think they are capable of bringing up a child?"

Has anyone considered that the addicts who have made use of this service may have done it because they genuinly don't want to have children?

"You can't outrun Death forever.
But you can make the Bastard work for it."

--MAJOR KORGO KORGAR,
"Last of The Lancers"
AFC 32


Educate your self in the Hazards of Fire Breathing STAY SAFE!



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