Posted on 07/08/2013 4:50:39 PM PDT by grundle
California prison doctors sterilized almost 150 women over a four-year period because they didn’t want the state to have to provide welfare funding to any children they might have in the future, one of the top doctors admitted this week.
California taxpayers spent $147,460 on the procedures between 1997 and 2010. ”Over a 10-year period, that isn’t a huge amount of money,” Dr. James Heinrich, the OB-GYN at Valley State Prison for Women, told the Center for Investigative Reporting, “compared to what you save in welfare paying for these unwanted children – as they procreated more.”
Heinrich’s argument recalls progressive Supreme Court Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr., who declared “three generations of imbeciles are enough” in the opinion he wrote for the majority in Buck vs Bell (1927), in which the Supreme Court ruled that women could be forcibly sterilized.
“We have seen more than once that the public welfare may call upon the best citizens for their lives,” Holmes wrote. “It would be strange if it could not call upon those who already sap the strength of the state for these lesser sacrifices, often not felt to be such by those concerned, in order to prevent our being swamped with incompetence.”
Unlike Carrie Buck, these women agreed to the sterilizations, but only because they felt pressured by the doctors. ”I figured that’s just what happens in prison – that that’s the best kind of doctor you’re going get,” a former inmate told CIR. The doctors flouted a regulation requiring state approval for each procedure, as the prison medical manager told CIR she signed off on the sterilizations as long as Heinrich “document[ed] it as a medical emergency.”
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Here they are... Obama’s peeps!
The Democrats peeps!
Nice...
I wonder how many Republicans would remain Republicans if Republicans did things like this.
Involuntary sterilization of wefare recipients (not inmates) was discussed in my college classes 2 decades ago. This is hardly new, and nobody will care any more than they did 20 years ago.
These people have no place in the “master race” envisioned by libs.
We are talking about the miscreants of society here. I realize that. I understand what you’re addressing, the academic discussion from long ago. I appreciate the mention.
It is abhorrent to me that news of this sort of thing wouldn’t be attached to a Hitler neophyte from the 30s or 40s of the last century. I don’t believe you disagree with that either from your note.
Outside of Soviet Russia, China at about any point in time, and other third world hell-holes, you just hope that these sorts of things wouldn’t happen.
When do we put this stuff behind us?
Probably never I suppose.
The problem is?
The people who are victimized by these policies are the same ones voting for the policy-makers.
I can’t save them from themselves. I have my own people to look out for (while I’m feeding CA’s inmates).
Today the people you don’t like.
Tomorrow Tea Party members.
Not a good idea. It’s not something we should be involved in.
When you start slicing and dicing on your populace at a whim, Katie bar the doors.
BTW: If I put words in your mouth there, I apologize.
There’s some truth in what you say about these being the policies of the people they voted for. No doubt about it.
Agreed. Nothing should ever be forced. This is pure nazi stuff.
Now making an offer of a year of free marijuana or fifteen minutes to be on the reality show of their choice for any that’ll go in for a vasectomy might be something to consider though.
“The problem is?”
Coerced sterilizations to “improve society” are wrong. This is Hitler/Mussolini territory, an affront to human liberty and dignity, no matter who it is inflicted on.
You’re correct. Although they are sterilized we will still pay for STD treatments, drug rehabs, Medicaid, future imprisonments, etc. Changing their minds and hearts is the only cure for them.
No worries; I understand.
I live in an area where all of the abortuaries are in black areas, and I have never voted for a pro-abortion candidate of either party. I understand that I’ll have to explain myself to God someday, and I have to be consistent with my positions (they are part of his creation as well).
In my area it is also easy to see how Dem policies have really sunk the lot of black people in general, particularly in terms of illegal aliens. Somehow, Dems will still garner 90%+ of their votes.
“Changing their minds and hearts is the only cure for them.”
It seems that will only happen when they pay their own bills/are responsible for their own actions.
WTF ???
Against their will? For the freakin public good?
Unreal. What Effing country are we becoming?
LOL...
Ok, I’m all for cutting welfare, but daymn. This is pretty barbaric!
Isn’t that the truth. I don’t know how Blacks can look their kids in the face the way they have sold them out.
The Democrat party is the party of enablement.
Sure you eat, have a roof over your head, but beyond that you’re the Left’s slave, kept on subsistence so you can waddle out and vote every election.
Really sad...
Tens of millions of representatives of the Black segment of our population have been silenced by their moms, because a Leftist defended their right to do so.
Self-inflicted genocide! That’s all it is. I weep for the Black race, and what it has been subjected to.
This is freedom? This is what civil rights was all about? This is why King marched? This is what he died for?
Hangs head...
then they need to sterlize all people crossing over the border they are crimninals costing this state tons of money!
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