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NEW ORLEANS (AP) -- A suburban New Orleans legislator is revisiting the controversial idea of paying poor women to undergo sterilization.
State Representative John LaBruzzo told New Orleans Citybusiness, in an article published this week, that the program he is thinking about would be voluntary. It would pay poor women $1,000 to have their fallopian tubes tied.
LaBruzzo, a Metairie Republican, says the plan could slow the growth of welfare rolls. But critics of such plans have long said the idea is racist. Sheila Griffin, interim director of the New Orleans Women's Health Clinic, criticized the idea as targeting poor black women and said better proposals to aid the poor would be to raise the minimum wage while improving education, labor laws and health care.
Give me a break.
NEW ORLEANS (AP) -- A suburban New Orleans legislator is revisiting the controversial idea of paying poor women to undergo sterilization.
State Representative John LaBruzzo told New Orleans Citybusiness, in an article published this week, that the program he is thinking about would be voluntary. It would pay poor women $1,000 to have their fallopian tubes tied.
LaBruzzo, a Metairie Republican, says the plan could slow the growth of welfare rolls. But critics of such plans have long said the idea is racist. Sheila Griffin, interim director of the New Orleans Women's Health Clinic, criticized the idea as targeting poor black women and said better proposals to aid the poor would be to raise the minimum wage while improving education, labor laws and health care.
Give me a break.