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Quote by: Mia If an American woman is on welfare, yes, she should be forced not to have more children that she can't care for.
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Two wrongs don't make a right.
Why do most states require people to wear seatbelts? Because the states implicitly assumed responsibility for your well being. If they take the responsibility for your actions, they take your freedom to decide these things for yourself. Smoking is very similar. We have laws against smoking, not usually because someones smoking is truly harming anyone else but because other laws require we pay to fund medical resource or provide someone medical care etc.
I see a lot of these types of laws, where we remove someones freedom because we already assumed responsibility for their actions.
Instead of killing children, we should just place the responsibility of providing for a child with the parent (with of course people freely allowed to provide assistance if they wanted, but not required to by law through social programs). Then we don't need to set quotas on children or have government change course from permitting abortions to requiring them.
This is the way to both allow people the freedom to have children or not and simultaneously protect others from being harmed by poor choices someone else makes. You might feel obligated to assist someone in need but it's unfair to claim their mistake truly harmed you by "making" you help them. Noone forces you, by definition, to do something charitable except government (which doesn't do charity).