PAY ADDICTS NOT TO HAVE KIDS

Professor

The Telegraph

A British academic has provoked controversy by calling for female drug
addicts to be paid to take contraception to stop them having children.

Neil McKeganey, a professor of drug misuse research at Glasgow University,
said that the move would greatly reduce the number of unwanted pregnancies
among drug abusers and stop much child abuse.

McKeganey also said that drug addicts who were already parents should be
given a year to give up the habit or have their children put up for
adoption. He said that both initiatives would help tackle the "crisis" of
neglect experienced by hundreds of thousands of children with drug-addicted
parents.

However, critics claimed that the proposal is ill-thought out, and would
lead to "social engineering on a massive scale."