When confronted with that? I think you point out the faults of our
health and social services systems in the U.S. and press for policies
that make sense.
In the U.S., we could first start with having access to drug and alcohol
treatment for folks who can't currently afford it.
My second would be to have access to reproductive health services.
Comprehensive, medically accurate, age-appropriate sex education would
be a nice third. (Louisiana, which is the origin of the original post,
is mostly if totally abstinence based.)
The Guttmacher Institute ranks Louisiana for contraception:
"Among the 50 states and the District of Columbia, Louisiana ranked
* 34th in service availability;
* 42nd in laws and policies;
* 10th in public funding; and
* 33rd overall."
http://www.guttmacher.org/pubs/state_data/states/louisiana.html
Fourth would be that vasectomy is much safer, more reversible, and
completely underutilized in the United States.
And, to point out, this isn't a new idea. North Carolina "led" the
nation for years with a sterilization program. Anyone so interested
will find this book on how women used NC's sterilization program to get
reproductive health services they were otherwise denied _and_ how many
were forced into sterilization they did not want:
Choice and Coercion: Birth Control, Sterilization, and Abortion in
Public Health and Welfare
By Johanna Schoen
http://uncpress.unc.edu/browse/book_detail?title_id=1293
Regards, Joseph.
Joseph G. Lee, MPH
Social Research Specialist
Tobacco Prevention and Evaluation Program
Dept. of Family Medicine, UNC School of Medicine
(p) 919/966-8948 (f) 919/966-9435
http://www.tpep.unc.edu
Graham Vimpani wrote:
> what do you do when you are confronted by a woman who has a major drug and alcohol problem, and who has had 7 children already taken into state care? isn't there a case then for actually paying her not to have more children? especially when her children are already costing the state several million dollars per annum as a result of their need for care and their associated mental health and schooling problems?
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>>>> Angeline Ferdinand <[log in to unmask]> 10/01/08 11:23 AM >>>
> I've seen a lot about this nonsense, and the conclusion I've come to is
> this:
>
> Yes, it's horrifying that there are people who think like this, and that
> there are people who will vote people who think like this into office. But
> the reality is, this is just some crackpot idea that a legislator has come
> up with. He hasn't actually proposed the legislation yet (as far as I
> know), and even if he did, there's not any chance of it passing. In short,
> I think that this is (yet another) opportunity to be all fired up and
> horrified about something that is ultimately fairly meaningless.
>
>
>
> On Tue, Sep 30, 2008 at 11:26 PM, Michael MacDonald <
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>> SDOH Readers,
>>
>> I was amazed when I read this, so I thought I'd share with you all:
>>
>> http://www.wwltv.com/topstories/stories/wwl092408cblabruzzo.a931c79f.html
>>
>> This politician has actually proposed sterilization of women in poverty,
>> and adds men as a side-note.
>>
>> Michael
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