Friday letters: How to limit poverty? Limit babies

Sometimes people need to use facts rather than nice-sounding excuses for why we have such a large financial underclass in South Carolina. A lot of single women and families suffer from poverty because they have numerous children that they cannot afford. Why not require all female Medicaid recipients to have a contraceptive implant after they have one child? This will reduce poverty immediately.

The people who will benefit the most will be the low-income families who will live with one or no children, and the taxpayers.

Yes, the government will have to pay for the implants, but imagine how much money it will save on countless Medicaid recipients being born to low-income families.

Lexington

This story was originally published April 2, 2015 at 5:00 PM with the headline "Friday letters: How to limit poverty? Limit babies."