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Louisiana Republican Wants To Send Women Who Have Abortions To Prison
Back in 2008 Louisiana State Rep. John LaBruzzo, R-Metairie, stated that women on welfare should be given $1,000 to have their tubes tied, but he also believed that the bill also could include tax incentives for college-educated, higher-income people to have more children, he said.
Worried that welfare costs are rising as the number of taxpayers declines, state Rep. John LaBruzzo, R-Metairie, said Tuesday he is studying a plan to pay poor women $1,000 to have their Fallopian tubes tied.
“We’re on a train headed to the future and there’s a bridge out, ” LaBruzzo said of what he suspects are dangerous demographic trends. “And nobody wants to talk about it.”
LaBruzzo said he worries that people receiving government aid such as food stamps and publicly subsidized housing are reproducing at a faster rate than more affluent, better-educated people who presumably pay more tax revenue to the government. He said he is gathering statistics now.
“What I’m really studying is any and all possibilities that we can reduce the number of people that are going from generational welfare to generational welfare, ” he said.
This Republican wants to now eradicate all abortions in his state and sentence both women and doctors who commit this crime the ban to 15 years hard labor. The law would make no exceptions for cases of danger to the health of the mother, incest or rape, and would essentially be an attempt to overturn Roe v. Wade in the state of Louisiana.
That’s the plan. This law is purely political, an attempt to get the attention of pro-choice groups to challenge it in the courts and with the current make-up of the United States Supreme Court, overturn Roe vs. Wade entirely.
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18 Responses to Louisiana Republican Wants To Send Women Who Have Abortions To Prison
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Reynardine
May. 1st, 2011 at 12:19 pm
Well, the whole idea is that women don’t get to decide whether to have children or not. Upper-echelon white males make that decision for them. There it is, if you please, in black and white: androcracy, plutocracy, leucocracy, + eugenics: Fourth Reich!
Ignia
May. 2nd, 2011 at 2:21 am
Hmm. What I’m reading is that they have the option (allocating $1000 for the procedure) to get it done. I don’t see any mention of a requirement to have the procedure done in order to gain aid.
Basically; it’s not forced. It’s not a requirement. It’s an option, and one that I would love to take if I had the opportunity. So in this way, I’m tentatively for the “semi-permanent birth control allowance” unless I missed something in this.
Reynardine
May. 1st, 2011 at 12:22 pm
Ah, and let us not omit: sterilization is likely to become a condition of welfare. It’s been done before. See Edwin Black’s “War Against the Weak”.
John Hall
May. 1st, 2011 at 12:28 pm
Funny these “smaller Government” Republicans. I guess they meant smaller or none for corporate fat cats, but everyone else…enjoy Big Brother.
Darklady
May. 1st, 2011 at 3:59 pm
Government just small enough to fit inside a woman’s uterus…
Sally
May. 1st, 2011 at 12:33 pm
Isn’t it cheaper to force men to have vasectomies? You know, you could go into high schools and sterilize any male who isn’t maintaining a C average or is not a football star headed for a free couple of years in college. And then, a lobotomy for LaBruzzo is in order. I vote yes.
Sarah Jones
May. 1st, 2011 at 12:48 pm
I’m right behind you. Cheaper and more effective, since a woman can only get pregnant once in the 9 month period but a man can impregnate a lot of women in that time period.
Also, lobotomies for anyone who is against this idea in the name of Jesus and small government. Drill, baby, drill!
Shiva (Moderator)
May. 1st, 2011 at 12:59 pm
Boehner sent me a mesage the other day about this 9 month thing. Can it be sped up?
Sarah Jones
May. 1st, 2011 at 1:26 pm
With his drunken aim? I doubt it. And then there’s the science thing.
Reynardine
May. 1st, 2011 at 1:00 pm
A lobotomy would be redundant.
Sarah Jones
May. 1st, 2011 at 1:25 pm
Ah, good point. They pass those out with the Drill Baby Drill posters and the Vote Fox bumper stickers.
Shiva (Moderator)
May. 1st, 2011 at 1:21 pm
But on the flip side LaBruzzo, why not help the poor get out of the poor caste? Do you think that might help these people to find birth control? or do you think not taxing the rich and throwing the resulting monetary requirements on the poor is helpful?
Ingarose
May. 1st, 2011 at 3:12 pm
Oh, how similar this all sounds. Let the rich, white, pure class reproduce and sterilize the poor and the misfits.
Iggie75
May. 1st, 2011 at 5:19 pm
I’m sure we all noticed there is no mention of 15 years hard labor for the guy that impregnated that woman, right? And the Republicans tell US that Planned Parenthood smacks of eugenics (because of its origins). This is eugenics, pure and simple. Weed out the poor and uneducated, let the rich and educated reproduce. How disgusting!
Anne
May. 1st, 2011 at 7:14 pm
The Republicans have some bizarre ideas about “big government,” which they want when it suits their purposes. It’s just that they don’t want “big government’s” safety net for people who would fall through the cracks otherwise. This is one of the most intrusive forms of big government. It’s personal and to be implemented, it would require the kind of intense scrutiny found in a police state.
Rick Shreiner
May. 1st, 2011 at 8:35 pm
I hear ya’, ONE super-stupid politician can impregnate HUNDREDS of women, putting them on welfare.
I say we sterilize any politician that doesn’t have a minimum IQ of 100, and we start with LaBruzzo .. ..
Snip, snip ..
Elizabeth Young
May. 1st, 2011 at 9:33 pm
These Republicans are already cutting budgets everywhere, but think increasing the prison population is a great idea. What is the annual cost of a prisoner these days? I heard $35,000 a couple of years ago. Then there are the ladies’ children. How is it going to cost to put them in foster care? Someone needs to ask these questions publicly of this “politician”.
NANCY
May. 1st, 2011 at 10:45 pm
then tell him ok then any man that has unwed sex should go to prison as well or any man that abandon’s their child fails to pay child support should have it cut off!!! let’s not discriminate! until he is faced with having to carry, give birth and raise a child when the father decides not to be in the picture he created as-well! until he takes a walk in their shoes he should not have a vote, once he experiences what they have then he can have a say… who the hell do these people think they are… people need to wake up and see that america is becoming less and less the land of the free and the brave… they can’t support poor people here in america but they’ll donate money to help poor in other countries (for a tax write off only)! this man is sick… what if his wife, sister, mother, child was raped then would he be for an abortion… god help some of these people!!! i personally don’t believe in abortion myself but i don’t have the right to tell anyone else they can’t… that’s not any of my business and definately not his as well!!!