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We do need to do more to discourage unwise pregnancies. However, I do not believe in making any sort of law or legal punishment. It's still an individual's right to be stupid. I also do not buy into the totally absurd concept of licenses or some other bureaucratic approval process. Aside from being completely unworkable and unenforceable, it's way beyond anything regarding a free society.Try to suspend auto-outrage before answering and responding.
Every state has an administrative agency charged with temporarily suspending, and/or petitioning for extinguishment of, parental rights if those parents neglect their children's basic needs.
The act of producing a child generates a legal obligation to provide for its basic needs. Failure to do so can result in the extinguishment of parental rights. Therefore, a person who is fertile but otherwise has demonstrable inability to provide basic minimum care to the child is capable creating a financial and legal liability that it can transfer onto others without their consent.
Why do taxpayers have to stand by and watch as people produce liabilities that they can shovel off onto others? How is this justifiable, and what should be done about it?
What we need to bring back, is shame. No, it's not warm and fuzzy. Instead of squealing with delight and congratulation when an announcement is made, we should be showing a disapproval and asking, "What the hell were you thinking?"
No holding a grudge, though, once the kid is born. It's done and it's not the kid's fault.