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#12362641 - 04/09/10 03:38 PM (14 years, 10 days ago) |
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April 9, 2010 - telegraph.co.uk
Drug addicts offered cash to stop reproducing
Addicts are being offered up to £200 cash to be sterilised so they do not give birth to drug dependent children
A controversial American charity is now offering the service to addicts in the UK and has set up a helpline for those interested.
Pro-life campaigners said the offer was "inhuman".
Project Prevention claims to have stopped 3,500 drink and drugs addicts from having more children by paying them to be sterilised.
It has now received £13,000 from an anonymous British donor to help launch a similar service in the UK.
But the campaigner behind the scheme, Barbara Harris, from North Carolina, shrugged off concerns that the money will just be spent on buying more drugs.
And anyone in Britain taking up the offer will still be expected to have the treatment done on the NHS at the taxpayer's expense.
Barbara Harris said she has visited drugs agencies in London to discuss the scheme and added: “I’ve got hundreds of emails from people in the UK saying: 'You need to come here, please come over here, we need your help.
"We’re going to make this offer to drug addicts, social workers, law enforcement. Anyone who comes in contact with these women can refer addicts to us now we have an 0800 number here in the UK."
She said drug users would have to go to their own GP or hospital to arrange the sterilisation and produce a certificate to prove it had been carried out.
She came up with the idea after seeing her own adopted children having to withdraw off crack cocaine after their birth.
Anthony Ozimic, of the Society for the Protection of Unborn Children (SPUC), said: "It is inhuman to seek to eliminate human problems by eliminating humans themselves. Such campaigns should have no place in Britain."
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Re: [UK] Drug addicts offered cash to stop reproducing [Re: veggie]
#12362708 - 04/09/10 03:52 PM (14 years, 10 days ago) |
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probably the greatest idea I've heard in a long long time. I obviously have nothing against drugs, but people dumb enough to go for this option really shouldnt be having children in the first place.
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Re: [UK] Drug addicts offered cash to stop reproducing [Re: Syriss162]
#12362749 - 04/09/10 04:01 PM (14 years, 10 days ago) |
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Shit anything to get people to stop having kids, there's too many people in this world.
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Re: [UK] Drug addicts offered cash to stop reproducing [Re: highdroponics]
#12362871 - 04/09/10 04:22 PM (14 years, 10 days ago) |
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highdroponics said:
Shit anything to get people to stop having kids, there's too many people in this world.
I agree.
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Re: [UK] Drug addicts offered cash to stop reproducing [Re: Nymphaea]
#12363031 - 04/09/10 04:52 PM (14 years, 10 days ago) |
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Absolutely sideways twisted no matter how you look at it in several ways. Wow.
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Re: [UK] Drug addicts offered cash to stop reproducing [Re: Dutchie3k]
#12363041 - 04/09/10 04:54 PM (14 years, 10 days ago) |
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What's twisted would be us screwing over planet Earth and ourselves by keeping up our population growth. NOT to say that this is the best way to stop it.
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Re: [UK] Drug addicts offered cash to stop reproducing [Re: Nymphaea]
#12363071 - 04/09/10 04:58 PM (14 years, 10 days ago) |
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Basically.
We've caused enough damage to this planet and the more people we produce the worse it's gonna get.
I'm doing my part by getting a vasectomy. Sex for procreation is a joke.
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Re: [UK] Drug addicts offered cash to stop reproducing [Re: highdroponics]
#12363090 - 04/09/10 05:02 PM (14 years, 10 days ago) |
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Addicts are being offered up to £200 cash to be sterilised so they do not give birth to drug dependent children
You really must be on some drugs and want to have some more when you accept only 200$ to be sterilised.
But hum... this new sound weird. I don't know. UK becoming really Big Brother more and more.
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Re: [UK] Drug addicts offered cash to stop reproducing [Re: Simplepowa]
#12364386 - 04/09/10 09:00 PM (14 years, 10 days ago) |
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population control is a very sneaky tactic.
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Re: [UK] Drug addicts offered cash to stop reproducing [Re: Grizzly Adams]
#12364735 - 04/09/10 09:58 PM (14 years, 10 days ago) |
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Holy shit. That's fucking crazy. 
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Re: [UK] Drug addicts offered cash to stop reproducing [Re: Majoses]
#12365306 - 04/09/10 11:55 PM (14 years, 10 days ago) |
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Wow that is fucking crazy. I don't think they should limit it to drug addicts and drunks though. What about flat out stupid people?
This is a great idea, but how do you convince people to do it voluntarily? I mean people are retarded when it comes to kids, when I was dating a chick when I was 18 she said if she got pregnant she'd keep it and wouldn't be able to give it up even though she can't take care of herself even.
The drunk/drug addict might later think what have I done??? But if they're still a drain on society it's for the better. Now if someone gets sterilized and get's cleaned up eventually that would suck for them, but maybe that's what they needed.
Tax payer dollars won't go toward feeding an unwanted child and irresponsible mother.
On the other hand these people could just go get some free condoms.
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