the dutch aren’t having babies anyway (unless you count the immigrants) so I don’t see what good this does.
Planned Parenthood was started by that crowd. The same crowd that got into trouble after WWII for complementing the Nazis.
Are we SURE we beat the Nazis?
The state cannot be trusted with power over reproduction. Who is to stop them from saying that morally upright (rather than relativist) parents are ‘unfit’ for breeding while psychotic druggies of a liberal disposition are A-ok?
I bet the State will force abortion for babies who are determined to be disabled including those who test positive in the womb for Down’s Syndrome. The State will not want to take care of these babies with disability check or medical care. State wants to spend “their money” on the young and healthy. Just my thoughts.
We used to live in the Netherlands and two of our children were born there. The Dutch government has a very intensive child care system where you must bring your kids in for regular medical check ups and be lectured to as to how to raise your kids. This law would appear to give the system more teeth. By what standard are you going to be judged a “bad parent?” For instance, when the nurse demands you stop breast feeding and give the baby tea in a bottle? Or how about when a preemie is below the normal growth charts because she was only three and a half pounds at birth. Is that doctor’s belief there is something wrong with how you are feeding the child to be legal grounds you are a bad parent?
Social control is the real goal of all national health care and here we can see it for what it is.
There was, at least, talk of inserting Norplant, a contraceptive drug, into the arms of female addicts who had produced a crack baby.
Considering the effects of crack on babies, the idea had a fair amount of support, although I don't think it was implemented.