LA lawmaker loses committee chairmanship after sterilization remark (KSLA-TV Shreveport)

6 October 2008, 6:10 pm

BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) - A New Orleans area lawmaker who suggested the state should consider paying poor women to undergo sterilization as a way to shrink welfare rolls was stripped Monday of his position as vice chairman of the House health care committee.... read more

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