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From: Steve <[log in to unmask]>
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Sent: Thursday, March 21, 2002 9:07 AM
Subject: Re: Global Warming Anyone?
> Please stick to the facts John, I know its hard sometimes but
> still....
>
> The drug addicted parent/abortion reference was to a limited program
> in Orange County California where a private group would pay drug
> addicted women who were pregnant to get an abortion.
>
> If that is forced sterilization then so is a "free abortion clinic".
>
> <rolls eyes>
>
> Steve
That may very well be true. However I recall a documentary in which low
income women, and possibly drug addicted women, who had several children
were forced to give up for their children up for adoption, and were coerced
to have their tubes tied. Now I will have to find that reference, but it was
on TV awhile ago. My memory is often pretty reliable. The documentary
outlined that the women were given money which they then used to buy illegal
drugs which they were addicted to. So in fact the logic was that they were
forcing these women to be sterilized because they could not help themselves
while they were addicted. These women testified that the used the money to
purchase illegal drugs. So my question is why did the medical/and or social
workers not know this in advance?
In Canada here we don't have to pay for abortions, so the inference here is
that there was some reason: were they of an ethnic minority generally?
John
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