[WOSG]

"I think propagating ones genes (for better or worse) is a fundamental human right. "

It is oxymoronic to construct "rights" that involve the picking of someone else's pockets. Our rights to our own life, liberty and property precede the claims of others.

If you are infertile for whatever reason you DONT have the "right" to socialized medicine to cure that condition. Go that route and we'd have an in-vitro fertilization program costing billions. (All next door to an abortion clinic killing babies every day, no doubt).

[ahayes]

Who said anything about socialized medicine?

[Mr. Bird]

It is oxymoronic to construct "rights" that involve the picking of someone else's pockets. Our rights to our own life, liberty and property precede the claims of others.

I, of course, agree with you. I should have been clear: if the individual has the means to obtain the intervention necessary, it should not be denied based on their genetic disposition. I would never propose that others pay, either directly or via taxation.

And my declaration that it is a fundamental right should be clarified that all of us have a fundamental right to pursue the propagation of our genes. We can't force ourselves on another for this purpose, of course.