Doug wrote:
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> Julia Thompson wrote:
>
> > More than anything, I'd just prefer that addicts not breed while
> > actively addicted. What would be cool would be if that birth control
> > method in Heinlein's _Friday_ were available, and to shut the fallopian
> > tubes of any addicted woman, with the possibility of opening them up
> > again once she were no longer on the drugs. But of course that doesn't
> > exist yet. (The closest I know of is sterilization of women, and that's
> > not really reversible.
>
> How about birth control implants?
Those are not entirely reliable. (I know one child personally whose
mother was on one of those implants when he was conceived.) That could
cut down on the number of drug-addicted newborns, though.
Julia
