Post 61 raises an interesting issue. As long as people are content to make their own way through life, and do not ask for, much less insist on forced charity money, as is being done by those Ferguson Demonstrators, - just that long can anyone reproduce freely as they see fit.
As soon as they demand charity, the givers of that charity have a say in how it is disbursed, and to what end.
To date, no one has found a valid end run around the hard reality that “Who pays the Piper, calls the tune.”
TANSTAAFL.
PS I have a hard time imagining either Moses or Jesus seeing the case Carry_Okie used, that of parents who both carried genes sure to produce a terminally ill child and who deliberately had such a child knowing they could/would pass the costs onto others.
PPS Where does individual responsibility enter this discussion? If G*d gave us Free Will, did not responsibility come as an inseparable part of that Divine gift?
Really? You think Moses and Jesus would support forced sterilization and forced abortion?