Should reproduction be a privilege?

[christiefan915]

Oh you're mistaken. I'm all for reasonable restrictions. We just disagree what is reasonable. So now,as to my question, you don't favor reasonable restrictions on parenting and birth?

Who applies the restrictions, the state? Just how does that work?

 

[christiefan915]

Christiekins loves Margaret Sangers' work with Planned Parenthood but doesn't want to apply her principles to planning any parenthood, apparently.

Margaret Sanger wasn't the government.

 

[SmarterthanYou]

do people lose their right to decide for their kids once they are born?

 

[Airstrip One]

That's why we prefer you just kill 'em.

 

[Big Money]

Margaret Sanger wasn't the government.

Planned Parenthood, the organization she helped found, has received federal funding since 1970.

 

[Big Money]

do people lose their right to decide for their kids once they are born?

An Ohio Democrat wanted to force parents to submit to background investigations.

She caved, fortunately.

Here she is sporting two different looks:

Don't you think she should decide whether or not you deserve to educate your children as you see fit?​

The language in the bill would have required all parents who home-school to undergo a social services investigation, including interviews and background checks, to determine if home schooling would be permitted. If parents didn’t pass the investigation, an ‘intervention’ would be recommended...



http://watchdog.org/121788/ohio-homeschooling-withdrawn/

We've seen how Democrats "safeguard" children, haven't we?​

 

[Billy the Great Khan]

Who applies the restrictions, the state? Just how does that work?

Why of course the state. Like I think we can both agree that violent felons shouldn't have children. Or the mentally adjudicated. People convicted of domestic violence...

 

[Big Money]

Then its done nothing to solve the problem. Much as DC has done nothing to solve the financial problems the federal government has by slightly lowering the massive increases in spending. Feel good acts are pointless.

I disagree.

Demographers estimate that the policy averted 200 million births between 1979 and 2009.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/One-child_policy

 

[Big Money]

Why of course the state. Like I think we can both agree that violent felons shouldn't have children. Or the mentally adjudicated. People convicted of domestic violence...

Hmmm, doesn't the state regulate certain other rights when those criteria are applied?

 

[Billy the Great Khan]

Bump.

 

[Airstrip One]

All Hail Caesar!

 

[christiefan915]

Why of course the state. Like I think we can both agree that violent felons shouldn't have children. Or the mentally adjudicated. People convicted of domestic violence...

I believe you're taking the piss. Or maybe trying to tie reproductive rights to gun rights in some convoluted way.

Buck v. Bell was never overruled. Is it ethical? Who decides?

 

[SmarterthanYou]

Buck v. Bell was never overruled. Is it ethical? Who decides?

are we really advocating the theory that the courts get to decide what the constitution means?

 

[Billy the Great Khan]

I believe you're taking the piss. Or maybe trying to tie reproductive rights to gun rights in some convoluted way.

Buck v. Bell was never overruled. Is it ethical? Who decides?

No, I'm being serious. Are you disagreeing with my premise?

 

[Billy the Great Khan]

So I'm the only one who believes it's time for some COMMON SENSE restrictions on the right to parentage?

 

[Big Money]

So I'm the only one who believes it's time for some COMMON SENSE restrictions on the right to parentage?

I think this Ohio Democrat agrees:

 

[christiefan915]

No, I'm being serious. Are you disagreeing with my premise?

If your premise is that prospective parents have to lay out their reproductive plans to the state before having children, yes, I disagree.

If you believe people have to turn over their medical records to some "birth panel" who can give your plans a thumbs-up or thumbs-down, yes, I disagree.