Pet Sterilization Becomes Law in LA

Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa on Tuesday signed one of the nation's toughest laws on pet sterilization, requiring most dogs and cats to be spayed or neutered by the time they are 4 months old.

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Official Sorry for Sterilization Remark

A city councilman apologized for suggesting that parents who don't properly care for their children should be sterilized to help reduce crime.

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S.C. Official: Sterilize Bad Parents

A City Council member, reacting to a video store holdup believed to have been carried out by children, says parents who can't properly care for their kids should be sterilized.

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Gypsy Women Confront Czechs on Ugly Legacy

Just hours after her second child was born, 19-year-old Helena Ferencikova's joy was dashed. In the recovery room, she discovered that the paper she had signed, not knowing what it said, had allowed doctors to sterilize her.

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During his confirmation hearing, when asked whether he thought "determining optimal population is a proper role of the government," Holdren answered, "No, Senator, I do not."

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President Obama's top science and technology advisor John P. Holdren co-authored a 1977 book ,Ecoscience, which advocated forced abortions, mass sterilization through food and water supply and mandatory bodily implants to prevent pregnancies.

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FORT WAYNE, Ind. (Indiana's NewsCenter) - At her sentencing for neglect of a dependent, an Allen County judge said he wished he could order her to be sterilized. Judge John Surbeck sentenced 22-year-old Shahollony White to eight years in prison for the Class-C felony.

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On March 6, 2009, the Obama administration announced that it will move to "rescind a controversial rule — adopted in final hours of the Bush administration — that allows health-care workers to deny abortion counseling or other family-planning services if doing so would viol …

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Is there an absolute or perhaps desperate self-defense need for the U.S. to include Depleted Uranium in its weaponry?

There has been lengthy on-going debate about the direct and collateral damage to the Middle East - the human beings who live there as well as the environment - caused by weapons whose lethal-ness includes depleted uranium.

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Worried that welfare costs are rising as the number of taxpayers declines, state Rep. John LaBruzzo, R-Metairie, said Tuesday he is studying a plan to pay poor women $1,000 to have their Fallopian tubes tied.

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From at least the Axial Age (800-200 BCE) until the late eighteenth century, most organized efforts to influence the size of populations aimed at boosting it.

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Last week, an intriguing proposition was mooted by Government minister Dawn Primarolo. Teenage girls, she said, could be steered towards what is described as "long-term contraception".

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Sterilization in Michigan January 22, 1934 This blurb from the 1930's discusses the practice of sterilizing children with inferior genes in Michigan institutions under Michigan's eugenics laws.

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Two weeks ago, the Explainer released a list of questions we were either unable or unwilling to answer in 2007.

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Native Americans Secretly Sterilized - Then United Nations ambassador George H.W. Bush used U.S. government money to sterilize undesirables around the world, including 25-50% of Native American women of child-bearing age (statistically, ages 15-44)

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One of New Zealand's largest primary health groups is offering free long-term birth control to high-need families, after a study found some women were having abortions while waiting to be sterilised.

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Farzaan Siddaqui beat up the last health workers who visited his home to vaccinate his children for polio. Like many Muslims in India, he thought the program was an infidel plot to make his community infertile.

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Oropeza: Neutering bill no-go Politics: State senator says objective is noble but bill is 'too severe a solution.' By Don Jergler, Staff writer Article Launched: 06/20/2007 10:04:53 PM PDT

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CHARLESTON, S.C. - A City Council member, reacting to a video store holdup believed to have been carried out by children, says parents who can't properly care for their kids should be sterilized. ADVERTISEMENT

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From the article: After Riddick became pregnant from a rape, doctors on the Eugenics Board of North Carolina decided in 1968 that she was too "feeble-minded" to ever be a good mother and wanted to ensure that she never would get pregnant again.

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Just hours after her second child was born, 19-year-old Helena Ferencikova's joy was dashed. In the recovery room, she discovered that the paper she had signed, not knowing what it said, had allowed doctors to sterilize her.

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