Crackheads having babies.

I've worked at several county hospitals, which treat the un-insured, indigent population, over the years. Mind you, uninsured, economicall challenged people vary from the crackhead to the housewife. What do you do when a cocaine using mother has three children all of which are under CPS custody? How about offering sterilization?

I understand there is a fine line here. How about the illegal immigrant with six children? What features would qualify for involuntary sterilization and what features would disqualify a person? Who would pay for these procedures? Is it ethical to sterilize people out of concern for the quality or productiveness or costliness of its offspring?

"CHARLESTON, S.C. - A city councilman apologized for suggesting that parents who don’t properly care for their children should be sterilized to help reduce crime" http://msnbc.msn.com/id/15116997/from/RS.5/