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Should there be regulations on the right to bear children?
Perhaps being able to have kids should be looked upon like being a privilage like the right to drive a car?
Should parent wannabe's be mandated to take a class and pass a test.
Should there be regulations on being able to qualify to bear children such as marriage, financial stability, minimum age limits etc.
Should it be imposed that a type birth control is mandatory until certain qualifications are met?
people who can't spell child shouldn't be allowed to have one.
sorry man.
You really can't regulate a biological process. It would be like regulating peeing. It can't and shouldn't be done.
(No, I am not comparing babies to pee....)
We don't let people put marijuana in their bodies. Why not have the same regulations for fetuses? They are, after all, a lot easier to detect and impossible to hide without destroying...
Seriously, I'd love some kind of regulation on that, maybe to qualify for government assistance, and if your child is neglected due to your lack of license, they can be taken away quickly. There are too many uncaring parents out there.
Ingesting drugs is not a biological process, as it requires an outside source.
Also, are you seriously advocating mandatory abortion?
Why should the government decide who has children and who doesn't? When has it ever shown the kind of judgment necessary to make that decision?
We already have laws which don't allow abusive parents custody of their children. Anything short of abuse gets iffy and is simply too hard to judge. And making judgments before the child is born is nearly impossible.
Should there be regulations on the right to bear children?
Perhaps being able to have kids should be looked upon like being a privilage like the right to drive a car?
Should parent wannabe's be mandated to take a class and pass a test.
Should there be regulations on being able to qualify to bear children such as marriage, financial stability, minimum age limits etc.
Should it be imposed that a type birth control is mandatory until certain qualifications are met?
In bold...absolutely. In particular, parents-to-be need to take an intensive 2 week long workshop that teaches them that having children does not give them the right to act like sociopaths towards the rest of society, i.e. bring crying babies to restaurants, movies, etc. (and then absolutely explode however politely you suggest they try to quiet the baby somehow).
I joke about not liking kids, but in truth I don't think they're so bad. It's the parents who I think are absolute psychopaths.
China seems to do it just fine.You really can't regulate a biological process.
So does getting pregnant.Ingesting drugs is not a biological process, as it requires an outside source.
If it was established that a person/couple couldn't provide for all the needs of the child without relying on the state... yes.Also, are you seriously advocating mandatory abortion?
Should there be regulations on the right to bear children?
Perhaps being able to have kids should be looked upon like being a privilage like the right to drive a car?
Should parent wannabe's be mandated to take a class and pass a test.
Should there be regulations on being able to qualify to bear children such as marriage, financial stability, minimum age limits etc.
Should it be imposed that a type birth control is mandatory until certain qualifications are met?
China seems to do it just fine.
I seriously doubt it would.Oh, sure, by forcing people to kill their own offspring in the womb. I'm sure that idea's gonna be real popular in some conservative circles in the US.
So, if a time comes when the country or the world does not have enough resources for the population to survive as a whole, you would rather let the population suffer instead of staving it off, by forced abortions?Let’s forget the consent of the governed or the government by the people and for the people. Let’s be slaves.
I seriously doubt it would.
Can you not see a time (such as previously mentioned), when such measures may be implemented, just like they did in China?
I can see it happening.
So, if a time comes when the country or the world does not have enough resources for the population to survive as a whole, you would rather let the population suffer instead of staving it off, by forced abortions?
If that time ever comes, because of changing attitudes, only a portion of the population would fight it.As for any Western population silently accepting this without a fight, no, sorry, I can't see it.
Interesting.yes. I would by far rather let everyone suffer than select people to be picked off.
If that time ever comes, to me, the moral obligation to not bring more children into the world trumps those ramifications. What I recognize is that those ramifications would be non-existent at that time because of the requirement. Changing times.can't you at least recognize that the legal/civil ramifications of forced abortions don't compare with those of just letting the surplus population die off?
???or are you thinking that aborted babies are easier to dispose of than decaying corpses in the street? this is somewhat morbid.
If that time ever comes, to me, the moral obligation to not bring more children into the world trumps those ramifications. What I recognize is that those ramifications would be non-existent at that time because of the requirement. Changing times.
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(I suppose then, that they could just let a person give birth, take it away, and just treat it like a 'surplus' person and let it rot away or turn it into food or fertilizer. :doh)
Resources goes much further than just food, but extends to every facet of life.
Which route would conserve more resources? This is what the laws of the time would be based on.
All I am saying is, if a time ever comes when the resources can not support the population, it will be inevitable that such steps as forced abortion, euthanasia, as well as forms of eugenics, will come into play. There is really no way around it. As resources further deplete the requirements of such will become more strict.
If those times ever come, there will be a shift in attitude towards life in general and personal choice in this matter will be trumped by law.
My premise, over population and lack of resources, either being the cause of the other.... abortion aside, euthanasia and eugenics certainly suggest a disregard for human life that I find disturbing, if that is indeed your position.
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the laws of the time, as you said, would be based on conserving resources, but I would hope that I would not be the only person to reject systematic murder of the weak under any circumstances.
As a point of philosophy, one can debate ad infinitum the wisdom of a particular woman or couple having a child. However, wise or unwise, that choice is for the individual woman or couple to make; government is explicitly denied a capacity to govern over that choice. Liberty in this country includes the capacity to make mistakes, to do that which is unwise; we are a free people only because we are free to err, and free to suffer the consequences of our error.The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States respectively, or to the people.
Who determines what is extreme? What man is sufficiently endowed with wisdom and insight to co-opt the liberty of his fellow man?In extreme circumstances, I think people ought to be controlled. Those who cannot afford to pay for the children they produce, who produce excessively because they are psychologically damaged (think Nadya Suleman), those who have, through their own actions, ruined their ability to have healthy children (think certain types of drug users), etc. It would be difficult to do, but the question wasn't about ease or ability, it was about taking a position.
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