Bitter pill: Rotterdam calls for compulsory contraception for ‘incompetent’ mothers

‘The city council of Rotterdam, the Netherlands, is calling for mothers who are adjudged incapable of raising children to be given compulsory contraception following a court order.
This month, they council has launched a voluntary contraception program for some 160 women who are deemed unfit for motherhood due to addiction, psychological problems and learning difficulties.
However the councilor for youth, Hugo de Jonge, suggests that the court should have the power to order such women to use contraception on compulsory terms.
“It concerns children who are born into families where it turns everybody’s stomach to think that they’re having a child,” De Jonge said as quoted by local NRC newspaper.’
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