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IOW, if you're advocating forced sterilization to prevent harm to children/unborn babies, you're also advocating preventing them from being killed in healthy mothers.
Playing devil's advocate here, I don't think this ought to turn into an abortion debate... But here's a counter-example (and I apologize if it seems crass): The various animal rescue organizations around the country come and remove abused animals from their owners. A large percentage of these injured/diseased animals are immediately euthanized--the idea being that it is more humane to put them to sleep than to let them keep on living in such pain. In the same way, there could be a correlation between having an abortion versus carrying a crack baby to term, given that the baby will invariably suffer for many years. A painless abortion is in theory more humane. That is one way in which you could be in favor of stopping crack addicts from reproducing and yet still in favor of abortion.
Strapping a woman down against her will, while she's kicking and screaming, and implanting something under her skin. She will probably try to remove said implant with a kitchen knife later.
Keep in mind, this is the same woman whom we will restrain, kicking and screaming, while we pry her abused baby from her arms and take it into foster care. That part already happens and no one says it shouldn't. The fact that she's kicking and screaming is inflammatory and irrelevant. In addition, while we're talking about direct methods, the Depo Provera shot involves no invasive procedure at all.
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