At 08:33 AM 8/23/97 -0500, Jim Choate wrote:
One thing that has been tried here, but was quickly shot down by the welfare lobby was making Norplant (a two ? year hormonal birth control device that gets implanted subcutaneously) implants a requirement for receiving welfare checks.
You need to read the Constitution again, you missed something critical in there.
Nope, I didn't. Nowhere is the Constitution does it say that citizens have a right to welfare money. The State is free to make virtually anything not expressly prohibited by the Constitution a condition for providing welfare. Including that the recipient takes positive steps to forestall the breeding of further welfare recipients. Even making castration a precondition for receiving welfare would be constitiutional. [I do not advocate such a step]. --Lucky Green <shamrock@netcom.com> PGP encrypted mail preferred. DES is dead! Please join in breaking RC5-56. http://rc5.distributed.net/