If you make less than $48,000 a year, the state of Wisconsin will pay to have you sterilized.
You heard that right.
The state of Wisconsin actually has a program that sterilizes poor people.
It’s all part of the department of health services’ family planning only services program, which falls under medical assistance.
Apparently, this has been going on for the past 40 years.
It flies below the radar because DHS never mentions it in its budget requests – and the department doesn’t really keep track of it either.
When the MacIver institute asked for the costs and participation numbers in its sterilization program, DHS said the records were buried its database and could not be easily retrieved.
So, sinister and unaccountable.
The whole idea of sterilizing poor people harkens back to progressive era eugenics programs, that sought to improve the gene pool.
Wisconsin banned the practice back in the 1970s, but apparently, progressives simply rebranded it as “family planning.”
