Neither does it apply to street thugs intent on impregnating as many baby mamas as possible and using the additional welfare income thus generated to pay their crack dealers.
Your right to reproduce is limited by your ability to take humane responsibility for the results of that reproduction.
We need to cut some slack and aid young couples who love their children and need some temporary assistance to keep their families intact. In order to do so, we cannot supply endless resources to the promiscuous, drug-addled and dullards who repeatedly demonstrate that they have no intention of taking any responsibility whatsoever as this woman has done.
Ah, and who do you think should be the arbitrator of what constitutes the ability to take humane responsibility
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Embedded in your argument, right there, is that at least some people do not need/deserve the right to reproduce; that it is not inherent in our very humanity.
Nothing good will come from that.
We need to cut some slack and aid young couples who love their children and need some temporary assistance to keep their families intact. In order to do so, we cannot supply endless resources to the promiscuous, drug-addled and dullards who repeatedly demonstrate that they have no intention of taking any responsibility whatsoever as this woman has done.
I said nothing regarding the expenditure of resources; nothing about whether or not the state should be caring for anyone.
Embedded in your expressed thought is that government ought to be involved; I do not believe that to be the case.
It seems to be a part of the crazy philosophy of some males rich or poor that fathering many children without any regard for these children or the mother of any of these children is a sign of masculinity. Professional athletes have been known to father many children with many different women.