LL> Should welfare recipients be sterilized as a condition to   
    LL> remain on welfare?  If so, who would pay for such a   
    LL> procedure? Not even insurance companies provide such   
    LL> coverage for working folks.  Conservatives seem to like the   
    LL> idea, even going so far as to make it a new publicly-funded   
    LL> government program ...   
      
    Since those on welfare have tended to be on it for a reasonably   
    short time over the last couple decades, and that long predates   
    the 1995 welfare deform act, it would be absurd to make such a   
    permanent change for a temporary situation.   
      
    OTOH, if you count everyone who get some benefit from the govt,   
    then you have a setup for revolution.   
      
    Sterilization has, in the past, been a prescription for those   
    not liked by those in power. Let that become law and you can see   
    the revolution bloom.   
      
   BOB KLAHN bob.klahn@sev.org   http://home.toltbbs.com/bobklahn   
      
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