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Thread #132894   Message #3012123
Posted By: Jean(eanjay)
21-Oct-10 - 08:28 AM
Thread Name: BS: A snip at £200? (sterilizing addicts)
Subject: RE: BS: A snip at £200? (sterilizing addicts)
I have watched the video of the Barbara Harris interview. She is clearly on a mission!

She makes sweeping generalisations. I know a lot of people with drug dependency problems. Most of them have no children at all. The most children that any of them have is two. However Barbara Harris leads us to believe that people with drug dependency problems have one child a year; that is rubbish, most of them do not have a child every year.

She is comfortable with the fact that she supported a bill that would imprison for years any woman who used drugs or alcohol during pregnancy. All those women who have an occasional glass of wine during pregnancy (and I was one of them) had better watch out - Barbara Harris is on the case! According to her anybody who uses drugs or alcohol during pregnancy is not responsible enough to be a parent.

She is comfortable giving addicts money because as she says it is their choice if they want to spend it on drugs. So she is happy to let them have that choice to buy drugs but they are not allowed any other choices!