Lawmaker mulls old Duke idea: Paid sterilization

NEW ORLEANS -- A suburban New Orleans legislator has proposed revisiting an idea from former Ku Klux Klan leader David Duke: paying poor women to undergo sterilization as a way to shrink welfare rolls and government costs.

Rep. John LaBruzzo's suggestion prompted outrage Wednesday from several of his fellow lawmakers and advocacy groups. The Louisiana chapter of the American Civil Liberties Union called the idea mean-spirited and said it would discriminate against black Louisianians.

LaBruzzo, R-Metairie, said the idea would involve the state giving $1,000 to women who rely on government support like welfare and food stamps if they agree to have their fallopian tubes tied. He said it was too early to say whether he would introduce such a bill during the 2009 legislative session, but he said he was researching it.

"If we continue to have more people using government to support them as opposed to those who are supporting government with their taxes, government will collapse as we know it and will cease to exist," LaBruzzo said in a phone interview.

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But let not the holy sperm's journey be thwarted!

They're what's costing the taxpayers.

Your reply should be repeated again and again and again!

:applause:

vasectomies as a precondition of the bailout.

argued vigorously for the sterilization of "dysgenic" groups.

if you make yourself permanently sterile.

but I thought this was kind of a big deal.