A GREAT INVESTMENT !!!!

[Daanyeer]

Source: http://www.advicegoddess.com/archives/2 ... vestm.html
October 23, 2009

That's paying drug-abusing welfare mothers to be sterilized -- in hopes that they don't do as 33-year-old Shamana Johnson has done.

Johnson is a single mother who'd been in prison, who has a history of substance abuse and who, the LA Times' Sandy Banks writes...yes, get this..."had nine children, then parceled them out like puppies."

Five are in foster care, one died as a toddler, and two are "unaccounted for," according to a DCFS memo. Sick. Sick. Banks writes:

As one social worker told me, "No matter how dismal her record of parenting, you can't go over to a woman and say, 'You're not going to be a fit mother, so we're going to take that right away from you.' "
To that, Barbara Harris says: Why not?

Harris and her husband had three sons when they became foster parents in 1990 to an 8-month-old girl born to a crack addict who hadalready lost four children to foster care.

A few months later, a social worker asked them to take the baby's newborn brother. Over the next few years, they would adopt four siblings from that same woman.

For Harris, it became a personal issue. And she responded in 1994 with what some considered an outlandish offer: She would pay drug-abusing women $200 to be sterilized.

...Harris -- who lived in Orange County then and now resides with her family in North Carolina -- was castigated by civil rights groups, accused of coercing vulnerable women to sign away their reproductive rights.

But donations rolled in, anguished families sought her out and addicts around the country signed up.

Harris' focus has shifted since then from sterilization to long-term contraception -- IUDs, implants, hormone patches and shots.

She pays a woman $300 for a tubal ligation. For an intrauterine device, a client receives $75 at insertion, $100 at her six-month checkup and $125 at the end of each year, for as long as she keeps the device in.

More than 3,000 women have signed on; 1,200 opted for sterilization and the rest for long-term birth control, according to her website, www.projectprevention.org.