[Mrs. Don-o]

If having children per se were the fundamental right of every person, no matter how you go about it, then children would be reduced to commodities: property to be bought, sold, traded, leased, patented, produced, and distributed. Low-income single men would have a right to have childbearng concubines provided by the state. Single women who can't find or don't want a normal relationship with a an, would have a right to subsidized insemination.

But having children is not, in an absolute sense, a right: what you DO have a right to, is to marry a person with whom you can have an honest go at natural procreation.

Sometimes because of the vagaries of chance or disease, irresponsibility or tragedy, children are deprived of a natural father or mother. In those cases, adoption is a very good option to respond to the needs of the child. But no child shold be deliberately deprived of a father by design, simply to provide for the preferences of powerful adults.

[oceanview]

and you want government to enforce, through laws, all of your ideas? how is the goivernment going to stop a single woman from getting pregnant is she wants to, with a law making her a criminal? same with a lesbian?

[Hildy]

WHAT THE HELL ARE YOU TALKING ABOUT? Are you insane?

[onyx]

Words fail me.