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Drug addicts across the UK are being offered money to be sterilised by an American charity.
Project Prevention is offering to pay £200 to any drug user in London, Glasgow, Bristol, Leicester and parts of Wales who agrees to be operated on.
The first person in the UK to accept the cash is drug addict "John" from Leicester who says he "should never be a father".
Project Prevention founder Barbara Harris admitted her methods amounted to "bribery", but said it was the only way to stop babies being physically and mentally damaged by drugs during pregnancy.
Pregnant addicts can pass on the dependency to the unborn child, leading to organ and brain damage.
Speaking to the BBC's Inside Out programme, she said: "The birth mother of my children obviously dabbled in all drugs and alcohol - she literally had a baby every year for eight years.
"I get very angry about the damage that drugs do to these children."
Eugenics is the "applied science or the biosocial movement which advocates the use of practices aimed at improving the genetic composition of a population," usually referring to human populations.
By evoking the 'it's all about the unborn children' argument, one can justify virtually anything.
Lets see ... the parents are obese and their children might then be overweight and prone to heart disease. I would estimate that at £500 per food addict.
What? You're a smoker? If you are a smoker, your children have a greater chance of smoking. That should be about £423 per addict.
Do I need to stop here?
This infernal woman is trying to stop drug addicts from having children. Isn't that the definition of eugenics?
To prevent certain groups from reproducing? Who gave Barbara Harris the right to interfere with peoples lives, under the assumption that all addicts will have damaged children?
Originally posted by Brood
Like it or not, eugenics could become a reality in any of our societies pretty soon, and it wouldn't be a bad thing. Overpopulation is a real problem that we are going to have to start addressing.
They came first for the Communists,
and I didn't speak up because I wasn't a Communist.
Then they came for the trade unionists,
and I didn't speak up because I wasn't a trade unionist.
Then they came for the Jews,
and I didn't speak up because I wasn't a Jew.
Then they came for me
and by that time no one was left to speak up.
Originally posted by woodwardjnr
How does an American charity get to operate in the UK in such a fashion?
Damn... This is just wrong.