I'm bringing sterilization back. These pussy liberals don't know how to act.

This is an old post from my now-defunct Myspace blog. I'm going to post some of the older postings in reverse chronological order to put a little meat on the bones of this puppy.

Originally posted on Tuesday, November 14, 2006.

It's been said that conservatives make little sense when it comes to abortion because they care so much about the fetus--it has alllll these rights--until it pops out of the woman's body and then--bam--suddenly it's no longer a very important problem. Money for childcare? Noooo. Money for public schools? Forget it. But remember, mom, you still gotta have the thing! It's not your right to terminate the pregnancy... it's only your right to take care of it for 18 years. Lucky you.

Some of my classmates were whining about abortion today and how the fetus should have a Fifth and Fourteenth Amendment due process right to life. Blah blah blah. "Life" is such a silly concept in the abstract. Yes, pop the child out so it can breathe and, um, starve. Or breathe and get no education. Yeah, that's a "life." Get real, people. Even if you're 100% anti-abortion AND 100% anti-welfare and therefore believe that it's a woman's responsibility to give birth no matter what, you must then at least realize that you're not giving that child anything resembling what you or I would consider a "life." I'm not exactly pro-welfare, mind you. But no matter how you look at it--economically, from the standpoint of libertarianism, from the standpoint of personal autonomy--it makes sense to attack the problem at the roots. Perhaps the humane thing to do is to realize that "life" is more than oxygen, food, and water. (Hint, hint, Terri Schiavo's parents.) Let people end big mistakes before they become even bigger mistakes. That thought led me to an old quotation from a pre-WWII forced sterilization case here in the U.S.:

[T]he public welfare may call upon the best citizens for their lives. It would be strange if it could not call upon those who already sap the strength of the State for these lesser sacrifices, often not felt to be such by those concerned, in order to prevent our being swamped with incompetence. It is better for all the world, if instead of waiting to execute degenerate offspring for crime, or to let them starve for their imbecility, society can prevent those who are manifestly unfit from continuing their kind. The principle that sustains compulsory vaccination is broad enough to cover cutting the Fallopian tubes. Three generations of imbeciles are enough.

Buck v. Bell, 274 U.S. 200, 207 (1927).

Of course, we could never do this today. We're too "humane" nowadays. Now we just have nutbags outside abortion clinics with bullhorns demanding that women have babies that they can't support. At the end of the day those same nutbags return home to their cozy houses replete with shelves of Bibles. On Election Day they vote against any possible tax that would help those women. At night they go to bed thinking God is proud of them. Yup, we're real humane here in the U.S.