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by candiodari 1216 days ago
Right now there are calls to forcibly abort and then forcibly sterilize women who get drunk during pregnancy.

The consequences of that are much worse, I might add, than the ones observed in this experiment. They are also permanent and will be passed on for generations. "Fetal alcohol syndrome".

In practice I think the chance of this actually happening to those women is, for the moment, zero. The above changes are effectively proposed as a way to save money for social services, and I do hope we, as a species, are above using forced sterilization to save a buck. Additionally I hope that any doctor that is asked to do this will refuse to do it.
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autoexec 1216 days ago
> Right now there are calls to forcibly abort and then forcibly sterilize women who get drunk during pregnancy.

Who exactly is calling for that?

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candiodari 1215 days ago
Social workers in Western Europe, for example. The socialist parties of .be, .fr and .nl

e.g. https://www.demorgen.be/nieuws/streng-verboden-een-kind-te-k...

They're saying the chances of making this happen are slim, but they're still calling for it.

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