Ring of Fire: Arizona GOPer Says Poor Women Should Be Sterilized

[GoLeft TV]

Ring of Fire's Sam Seder and author Cliff Schecter discuss former Arizona state Senator Russell Pearce's comments regarding women on Medicaid, in which he insisted that they should be sterilized.

Pearce stated:

“You put me in charge of Medicaid, the first thing I’d do is get Norplant, birth-control implants, or tubal ligations," Pearce said on his talk radio show. "Then we’ll test recipients for drugs and alcohol, and if you want to [reproduce] or use drugs or alcohol, then get a job.”

[Mopar151]

1. So he's OK with gov't funded birth control

If HE gets to say WHO???? New depths of depravity linked with epic poutrage

[janlyn]

2. I knew pearce back when he was still

a deputy with the Maricopa county sheriffs office. He used to hassle us teens when we were doing nothing wrong. He was a giant dick with ears back then, and I see nothing has changed!

[mnhtnbb]

3. Put me in charge and I think there should be a law making it illegal for Republicans to procreate.

Obviously, they are of limited intelligence, and in the interest of
progress, should not be allowed to pass on their 'stupid' genes.
And of course, that applies equally to men as well as women.



What a jerk.

[WhoIsNumberNone]

4. Wait- So he's OK with birth control when it's being forced on poor people?

Apparently he's also OK with eugenics, in as much as he want to be able to put conditions who can reproduce.