A Priest After My Own Heart

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From THE PEW FORUM:

Roman Catholic Archbishop Alfred Hughes has denounced Republican state Rep. John Labruzzo's proposal to combat poverty by offering poor women and men $1,000 to undergo reproductive sterilization and vasectomies. In addition, the lawmaker said he is considering whether to propose tax incentives for college-educated people to have more children.

Hughes based his opposition on two elements of Labruzzo's proposal. Catholic teaching holds that tubal ligation and vasectomy are wrong, because they rob sexuality of one of its main purposes, the transmission of life. More broadly, the plan "would also constitute a form of eugenics that the church and this country have always condemned."

COMMENT: MadPriest completely agrees with the archbishop. This is a wrongheaded suggestion that goes against all that we hold dear. In other words it is going to cost us money. A far better scheme would be to financially cripple, with draconian, progressive taxation, those who HAVE babies. That way we will be quids in and we get to clobber the rich as well.

It is about time that those of us who don't sponge off society, by taking parental leave and the like, were relieved of the completely unjust burden of paying for other people's lifestyle choices. You hand most of your wages over every month to pay for these kids education and they don't even send you a card at Christmas. Ungrateful, little tykes.

Ginny

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