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Lousiana Lawmaker Faults Media For Focusing Attention On His Eugenics Proposal

Louisiana State Rep. John LaBruzzo (R) recently stirred controversy by advocating a form of eugenics to decrease the number of poor. “I realized that all these people were in Louisiana’s care and what a massive financial responsibility that is to the state,” he said. “I said, ‘I wonder if it might be a good idea to pay some of these people to get sterilized.’” His plan would also give tax incentives to the rich to encourage procreation.
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LaBruzzo seems to be dead serious about implementing the plan. He “gathering statistics” now and is planning to introduce legislation “if he finds that the number of people on welfare has increased” over the past decades.MORE

fightingwordsgives some background

If you don't know about the history of how reproductive rights have differed for white women and women of color, it's because you haven't been informed. I'll be a peach and give you a few links to places you can get information:

La Operación is a documentary about the enforced sterilization of 1/3 of the women in Puerto Rico.

Killing the Black Body and Medical Apartheid both discuss the history of medical racism and in particular address how that has affected black women and their reproductive health and rights.

Reprise/Forced Sterilizations is a paper about the forced sterilizations of Native women in the 1970s.

What is common amongst all of these is the silence of the mainstream reproductive rights movement--or complicity of same. That no mainstream pro-choice organization has spoken to LaBruzzo's proposal says a lot about where their priorities lie.

Womanist Musings slams it head on.

Rep. LaBruzzo has discovered how to end economic disparity. The answer that we have all been waiting on is...drum roll please....paying poor people to undergo sterilization. An old fashioned idea to an ever increasing crises. Do you smell the stink of white fear?

Eugenicists have historically argued that it is the poor, disabled, defective and bodies of colour that are stagnating the growth of the country. With an economic crises looming can we really afford to keep supporting those that wish to spend a lifetime sucking on the government teat?
Remember that the current housing crises is the result of people who could not afford to pay for their mortgages. When you try to give the poor a helping hand they always fall back on old habits and shirk responsibilities. The liberal media would have you believe that it is the banking institutions themselves that are at fault for being blinded by greed, but seriously everyone knows that banks only have the interest of the common man at heart.
What Labruzzo and men of his ilk want people to believe is the lie that is preached in every single elementary school across the country; meritocracy. The streets are paved with gold, and if you work hard enough each person has an equal opportunity to succeed. If people are poor it is because they choose it and this is a choice that the government can no longer continue to support. MORE

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Well hey, it worked for Hitler, right? >_<