“I’m defending the idea that two adults who create a child should be joining forces to be the best parents they can be to their own flesh and blood child.”
So what are you proposing in practical terms? Forced marriages?
I mean, arguing that everyone should be morally upstanding is great, but that isn’t a rejoinder to the argument that the laws need to treat people equally even if they do not live up to your moral standards.
The solutions to my mind have to be cultural. Children have to stop being considered a waste by-product of sex, or a nuisance outcome of sex. We have to value life.
No, I don’t support expanding the police state. It has to come from cultural changes and a big part of that is promoting what conservatives (I thought) promote which is personal responsibility for both parties.