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03/25/2008: "British Councillor calls for compulsory sterilisation for parents on benefits."

A Tory councillor has sparked outrage by claiming parents on benefits should be sterilised to stop them having more than one child.

Cllr John Ward, of Medway Council in Kent, has faced a rash of calls to resign after making the comments in a discussion about the hunt for missing schoolgirl Shannon Matthews.

Mr Ward said Shannon's family - which includes seven children fathered by five men - was an example of "Breakdown Britain"

Writing on his personal website, the councillor said: "I think there is an increasingly strong case for compulsory sterilisation of all those who have had a second child - or third, or whatever - while living off
state handouts.

"It would clearly take a lot of social pressures off all concerned, thus protecting the youngsters themselves to some degree, and remove the incentive to breed for greed, ie for more public subsidy."

[ People who can't manage their own lives should probably not be breeding, or we'll get more of them. ]


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