Would this work??

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After watching This Morning today, I’m copy/pasting the article on their website for possible debate on here:

Barbara Harris is bringing project to pay drug addicts to be sterilised to UK.
In 1997 American mum Barbara Harris, 57, decided to start a scheme to pay female and male drug addicts or alcoholics in America to be either sterilised or to commit to long-term contraception.
It’s an initiative that’s appalled many but also gained support from people who believe such action is the only way to combat the crippling social problems that come with drug abuse.
Today 1,226 women in America have taken money to be sterilised and now Barbara is bringing ‘Project Prevention’ to Britain.
Addicts who want to accept her offer of £200 must be sterilised or fitted with a contraceptive implant - anything that will assure her they will not be able to get pregnant.

So what do you think?

My personal opinion? I wouldn’t pay them to get sterilised! They should be do it off their own back with no money incentive. I think the same about two other groups of people (this my opinion so instead of shredding me to bits express yours) child molesters/rapists and teen mummies who bring babies into the world on the grounds that the state will support them. I’m a taxpayer, and quite frankily, enough is enough. Use my tax money on something tha will benefit the real needy e.g. the pensioners.

If anyone on here is in the States, how is Project Prevention seen over there? Is it supported by most or seen as ‘wrong’ for sterilising those who some say are in no fit state to made such a big decision?

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Re: Would this work??

Years ago in many western countries mentally ill patients were sterilised "for their own good". Today those same people have successfully sued the state for compensation.

Paying for an implant - I can get behind that because it prevents the birth of a child to an addicted mother and may prevent things like fetal alcohol syndrome or similar ailments that children born to an addicted parent may have. Plus, an implant is not permanent and gives the mother the opportunity to seek rehabilitation and make different choices later on in life.

At the end of the day, it's all about choice and consequences of choices made when your judgment may have been impaired.

And the issue of taxpayer money - hello, as a taxpayer I'm on the hook for the medical care of that child - either through social assistance or medical care.