Frightening! Eugenics Today.

After reading and discussing positive and negative eugenics I decided I wanted to learn more about current eugenics issues. I was alarmed to find that in just last September a Louisiana representative announced his plan to write basically a negative eugenics plan. He wants to pay poor women $1,000 to have their tubes tied. He says this is necessary because too many people are having children that don't have the means to support them and Social Services are overloaded. Representative LaBruzzo (R)... acknowledges that he will receive backlash from his proposal and he will be criticized for being racist, but he feels like this is something that should be done. The program is voluntary, but I'd imagine from the looks of responses to his proposal on-line it doesn't look like he has received a lot of support. ***If you go to this site be aware that some responses are vulgar and encourage Representative LaBruzzo to get rid of some of his own reproductive goods...***