OUTRAGE AT PLAN TO 'NEUTER POOR'

A Controversial programme which offers drug addicts $200 to undergo
sterilisation has run into a roadblock set up by California activists, who
call it a plot by the rich to neuter the poor.

A billboard put up in Oakland advertising the Children Requiring A Caring
Kommunity (CRACK) was immediately torn down, and community activists said
any further attempts to push the programme would be met with protests and
picket lines.

"The essence of this campaign is profound hatred against poor people,''
Ethel Long-Scott of the Women's Economic Agenda Project said last night.
"It presupposes that addicted poor women have no redeemable qualities and
their children have no contribution to make, so they are proposing to
sterilise them.''