What if the government offered $500 to anybody who would volunteer to be sterilized?

Question

The economist Steven Levitt was the first to discover a link between abortion and falling crime rates. In cities where abortion was legalized, crime rates fell dramatically about 20 years after the law was passed. (His study concerned New York)
This is because the people most likely to have abortions are those below the poverty line, teenage mothers etc. Basically the same group that produces most criminals.
If we offered $500 to anybody who volunteered to be sterilized, these are exactly the people who would take up the offer.
I believe this would reduce crime, save a fortune on social welfare and have many other beneficial effects.
What do you think?

Answer 1

I'd feel my tax dollars were being used wisely.

I'm an upper class student living in a poverty level area as part of a research project on concerns and considerations for the lower socio-economic class.

The majority of people I have talked to are in agreement with me on this issue - the rest are so poorly educated that they hate and mistrust the Government on just about everything even though they are living in Section 8 housing, on HUD grants and welfare and food stamps.

It's a sad situation, but at least if there was an incentive for financial compensation, the option of sterilization would be taken seriously.

Answer 2

Why don't you go first?
So you now have the right to tell people how many children they can have?
That is racism at it's finest and mybe you should join Henry Kissinger in calling persons useless eaters. I'm sure Hitler would hi-5 you too.
That is disgusting to do to another human being and you are not to tell anyone what to do with their body plain an simple. Just because your poor does not make you less than and you will go to hell for this attitude against the poor.

Answer 3

this is stated as eugenics, hitler became a large proponent of this concept, even with the undeniable fact that he did not grant an excellent cheque on the right. guy, get your data right now, do a touch analyze. From the dictionary: Eugenics the technology of recuperating a human inhabitants through managed breeding to improve the prevalence of proper heritable characteristics. developed almost continuously through Francis Galton as a fashion of recuperating the human race, it fell into disfavor in ordinary words after the perversion of its doctrines through the Nazis

Answer 4

Great idea! I have always said that birth control should be mandatory, or implanted when you are a child, and you should have to apply for a licence to get the birth control removed and then you could have children. And 2 children at the most. These ridiculous families with 7 kids is absolutely out of control.

Answer 5

the ppl that should be or the ones that wouldnt
we all see these bad parents with rotten kids popping them out like crazy
they know what are doing they sit on their butts on welfare fat and lazy while their brats break the law

Answer 6

A lot of the human race, especially the materialistic ones, would jump in it in a hear beat.

Answer 7

It might work. However, those who keep having kids to stay on welfare so they don't have to work would not take you up on it.

Answer 8

A lot of people pay to be sterilized, so yeah.

Answer 9

well i dont know why you find it soo amusing buddy...this actually happens in india where a person gets paid for undergoing vasectomy....but not bcoz of crimes but for overgrowing population.........

Answer 10

It would not go over well, it would be viewed as a policy that is aimed at the poor and minorities.