Sterilise parents on benefits, says Tory
A councillor is facing calls to resign after he said parents on benefits should be sterilised to stop them having more than one child.
John Ward, a Conservative member of Medway Council in Kent, made the comments during a discussion about the hunt for the schoolgirl Shannon Matthews.
He said her family was an example of social decline in Britain. He outlined his proposals to cut spending on social security payments.
Writing on his personal website, the councillor said: "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 benefits.
"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."
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