No matter what you believe or what anyone tells you, there is only one reason you exist, and that is to have children. If you raise them well, and they grow healthy and prosperous, it increases their chances of having healthy and successful children of their own, thus spreading your successful genes across another generation. Nothing is more important that this. Not the state of the world, not the fairness of government, not your economic status, not your level of education, not your level of religious or spiritual enlightenment, and certainly not your own personal happiness. But short of someone who absolutely cannot have children of their own, the only people who will be able to care for and raise your children is YOU, because you cared enough to stay.

Everything in life has a learning curve, and the very idea that the government should be able to deny someone a natural right because they cannot intuit the perfect form of an act the very first attempt is naive and evil. The reason we do everything we do is so that we can provide for the next generation, whether we know it or not. You do what is good for yourself BECAUSE it is good for your children, even if they have yet to be born.

You make a good point.

You mean you support the government forcing pregnancies, as well? That’s right, read what the man wrote. It’s not just that he wants to force abortions upon people, but also to give the government complete control over the reproductive decisions of all women. In fact, he laid out a legal framework to make not having children (or, his primary view, having children) a crime. You are a little facist if you support this, Alex. You realize that with your ideal government, there would be no room for guns in private hands, correct? Proper population control could not happen when a father is willing to kill and die to defend a woman about to give birth to his child.

If you are a teen mom and you think you’re capable of raising a child to adulthood, then you’re either stupid or delusional, either way, you’re unfit to be a parent.

I don’t get it. I just don’t see any problem with what this Science Czar is advocating.

i think that every mother has that instinct, it is called the mother love to protect her children. Some are deficient and bad mothers but the children if they survive will create more children. That is the meanin of the biological urge to peocreate our species to ensure that more children are created

with this one.
“In the extreme, such as severe abuse, I’ll agree that government or community force is necessary to isolate and protect the child.”

I’ll accept, only for the sake of argument, that the parents depicted are not the best available. Yet I must point out a few things. As far as we can tell, the child is not abused. The parents are not mentally retarded, nor unfit to take care of themselves. Therefore I am interpreting your argument to be “because someone, somewhere, can raise the child better, it is thus proper to force this action.” Since the only difference in the child will only be a few iq points, or a trip to mcdonalds instead of a healty fish and salad meal, I find it entirely proper for the parents to defend with force the taking of their child.

“Depending on the parents, sometimes the best way to defend their progeny is to let better people raise them.” In the extreme, such as severe abuse, I’ll agree that force is necessary. Otherwise the choice must be up to the parents. Not you, me, or anybody else.

In summation, I vehemently disagree with your position.

I am not a parent.