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No. It's not. The options are simple: get support for your children/ don't have more that you can afford. I think the mentality people have these days is down right dangerous: it's this "something for nothing attitude." No one is entitled to anything. Life doesn't guarantee that people will be fed and clothed, and yet in 21st century America, even the fattest, sickest, most unhealthy people among us are guaranteed not only the essentials, but also comforts and luxuries. I might be able to go along with that much, but this mentality that people should not only get seemingly infinite entitlements, but also be free to birth more children for society to support is ridiculous.
Putting a cap on someone's baby maker in exchange for doing what THEY SHOULD be doing is reasonable. If those same people were born before LBJ and his fellow Fabian socialites turned America into an idealistic mecca of government tit suckers, their children would have likely died at birth. Most of these wimmin don't want their boobs to sag from breastfeeding afterall.
All I advocate is at least some level of personal responsibility. And people think it's coercion.
Plain and simple, the government doesn't have a right, should never have the right, to force medical procedure on us, no matter how upset you are about welfare.
That social experimentation was tried, abused and ended.
What are we doing now to prevent unplanned pregnancy? Cutting services and closing Planned Parenthood. If one is serious about reducing unplanned births, then one should be a strong advocate of the government increasing these services and making them available a low cost or free as possible. When offered, many low income women in a study presented in 2012, took the long term options given them.