“then why should we NOT have the ability to withhold that activity for the sake of us all?”
Denying one fundamental right, is no different from tearing at the rest. You can’t grind them so fine, that it is ok to reject the children you may have, and not ok to reject the ones that you do.
We cannot strip the decision from the hands of the irresponsible, any more than we can cripple the responsible.
The problem, as you note, is not with procreation, which brings about children that are a blessing to society, the problem is welfare.
Why should we sterilize those on welfare, when we can simply cut them off?
I am not promoting “forced sterilization”. HOWEVER, forced birth control as a condition to receive public assistance funding is another matter. One certifies that they are supposedly looking for a job in order to collect unemployment, must pass tests in order to engage in a variety of income producing activities or drive a car.
And, even forced permanent birth control isn't off the table, in my opinion. I recently saw an article, tracing the offspring of one well know criminal from a couple of generations ago. The amount of damage and mayhem those offspring have wrought upon the rest of us is staggering.
The hypocrisy of Liberalism is evident here as in most issues.
It is conventional wisdom that "gayness" is a genetic condition and the gay person is immune to changing. Yet, it is NOT acceptable that pedophiles are similarly wired genetically, criminals are not genetically programmed and liberals are mentally challenged, all due to genetic issues which are unchangeable and permanent. Without some sort of control, we have the mongrel pot we have today: >multiple generations of lazy welfare dependent families >ever increasing perpetrators of pedophilia and all its variations >serial killers galore >power crazed liberal politicians The age old dichotomy of what powers and how much do we grant the government,how do we control it once granted and perhaps most important, how do we select the governors with the best intentions and commitment to preserving as much liberty as possible may never be solved, but I submit there are far greater wrongs that have been perpetrated by government upon more people than this one single issue. And BTW, why have we allowed a single issue like the right to indiscriminate and often multiple abortions to become a litmus test for political office when there are SO many MUCH more important issues to deal with????? The fanatical supporters of THIS particular "right" are basically saying to the rest of us that: "Unemployment, the American economy and National Security are ALL less important than MY personal right to copulate at will. And I could care less that innocent lives are being snuffed out as a result of MY needs."