Republican Lawmaker Has An Idea: Let's Sterilize Drug Addicts
A West Virginia GOP lawmaker came up with a nifty idea. State Senator Randy Smith thinks it would be a good idea to sterilize drug offenders to reduce the state's drug problem. Yikes.
Smith shared this idea with constituents last week, telling voters he planned to sponsor a bill proposing that those convicted of drug offenses can voluntarily sterilize themselves to receive a reduced sentence.
"If you want to lessen your prison sentence, if you're a man, you can get a vasectomy so you can't produce anymore," Smith told audience members, according to Newsweek. "If you're a woman, then you get your tubes tied, so you don't bring any more drug babies into the system."
"The drug babies are hitting the school system, and it's getting worse and worse," Smith claimed, according to the Cumberland News-Times. "That's where you're having your behavioral problems."
When asked how that would help solve the problem, Smith said they "wouldn't be having kids."
"Drug babies," seriously?
"Now, you don't have to," he continued. "If you don't, you're going to jail for a very long time. If you volunteer for the program, then you get a lesser sentence."