Remember that the people you are talking about, however indolent, irresponsible or ignorant, are human beings. As a fellow human being, and a father of nine with one on the way, I will fight or die to protect families and their right to grow and exist. No State "allows" me to make love to my wife. And no State, like China, may intrude on our bodies to make us infertile. I can think of no issue, save an infraction against Christianity, that would make me more furiously militant. In fact, controlling our right to reproduce would be a heinous infraction against God Almighty's first command to "be fruitful and multiply".
I am with you 100% on cutting ALL forms of welfare, including and especially government schools. But if you are worried about being outnumbered by Muslims, Mormons, Mexicans or morons, then have more children and/or encourage your children to have more children.
I’m not interested in being pressured into entering a breeding contest with lowlifes, under the threat that “if you don’t outbreed them, they’ll take over the world”. I’m also not suggesting the government should be engaging in prior restraint, but once someone has seriously abused, neglected, or killed a child (their own or someone else’s) or has committed some violent crime (e.g. murder) that obviously renders them unfit to be parents, we shouldn’t feel that it’s “violating their rights” to prevent them from having children. If we keep sitting idly by and letting more and more of them be born, this guarantees a descent of our whole society into socialism and fascism, and then you will have no further protection against government forcibly preventing you from having children if it doesn’t like your political views or religious beliefs.
We’re constantly seeing news stories about children who are brutally abused and/or killed by mom or mom’s boyfriend, or neglected to the point of severe physical and neurological damage, and the end of the article notes “she has three older children who were already in foster care”. If someone has had their day in court, and the court has found them unfit to keep the children them already have, letting them breed more and keep those until they do something horrible to them is just insane, and also shows a callous disregard for the extreme suffering many of these children endure.
Here’s a story from today’s Salt Lake Tribune. http://www.sltrib.com/ci_14870617?source=most_viewed Do you really think it’s okay for this woman to go on reproducing?
Yes, there are cases which are in the “grey area” and we need to err on the side of freedom in those cases. But we’ve got many thousands of kids born every year to parents whose past misdeeds are definitely not in any “grey area”.
Three more stories about people who ought to be sterilized, just a fraction of the cases in today’s news. And tomorrow there will be more . . .
http://www.foxnews.com/us/2010/04/13/ohio-man-guilty-putting-children-trash/
http://www.foxnews.com/us/2010/04/13/ore-mom-pleads-guilty-death-year-old-son/
http://www.kold.com/Global/story.asp?S=12298839