Sterilization?

I put a question mark after the title of this blog, but I should have used an exclamation point because it isn't a question.  The case of a Nova Scotia mother who just had her 10th child removed permanently from her care screams for the procedure.

Sickening.

This woman is an alcoholic, drug addict and an obvious threat to the welfare of all her children.  How can she have thought it a good idea to get pregnant 10 times??!!!!  The Nova Scotia Supreme Court has ruled that in the child's best interest, she will be placed permanently in the care of the ministry of social services.

Her three oldest children were placed with grandparents and another six with the province.  But she went ahead and got herself pregnant again!

So sickening.

I didn't want to believe my hunch, but was the mother Indigenous?  Sure enough, she is Mi'kmaq.  I hate it when my biases and assumptions come true.

Apparently, she drank and did drugs throughout this pregnancy too and was involved in a violent incident with her sister and father during which she smashed a car window with a baseball bat.  Attending police described her and the sister as being "heavily intoxicated" at the time.

It's all so sad -- especially for the children, most of whom have varying tragic degrees of fetal alcohol syndrome.  What hope do they have?  As I said, I hope to G-d someone sterilizes this woman.