Sterilant in Drinking Water?
Adding a sterilant to drinking water or staple foods is a suggestion that seems to horrify people more than most proposals for involuntary fertility control. Indeed, this would pose some very difficult political, legal, and social questions, to say nothing of the technical problems. No such sterilant exists today, nor does one appear to be under development. To be acceptable, such a substance would have to meet some rather stiff requirements: it must be uniformly effective, despite widely varying doses received by individuals, and despite varying degrees of fertility and sensitivity among individuals; it must be free of dangerous or unpleasant side effects; and it must have no effect on members of the opposite sex, children, old people, pets, or livestock.
Who would even considered the results of such actions? Our new Science Czar of
Indeed, it has been concluded that compulsory population-control laws, even including laws requiring compulsory abortion, could be sustained under the existing Constitution if the population crisis became sufficiently severe to endanger the society.
I can’t help but think of Obama and those on the Left, who said Sean Hannity and Glenn Beck were fear mongers. That somehow during Obama’s Presidential campaign they distorted facts. It appears to this American, they under estimated his questionable relationships with Ayers and Wright. Who would have thought a person in the White House, appointed by the President would believe that someday, if need be, the government should encourage if not force Americans to have abortions in order for the common good. As a collective of course.
Holdren: It would even be possible to require pregnant single women to marry or have abortions, perhaps as an alternative to placement for adoption, depending on the society.
