Should pregnancy be licensed?

Question

anymore pregnancy is a punishment, not the blessing that it should be. i've always held that pregnancy should be licensed and sanctioned, in this day and age, it appals me that there is more training and testing involved in driving a car! but biology gives every idiot the right to pilot a human life!
something about that just feels very wrong to me.
there should be evaluations, screenings. people who are clearly unfit (like active drug users, mentally ill med non-compliant, teen and preteen, known abusers, ghetto moms pumping out kids for a living) , and sittuations where the quality of sed child's life will be substandard; these mothers ought to be given a choice.
adoption or abortion. these "ladies" (using the term loosely) need to be prevented by the state from inflicting themselves a pure being.
i had a daughter at 20. i was very irresponsible. my daughter suffered for it. now, at 32, i have a son(3), and my daughter(11) lives with my mom, and she is a very happy little girl

right to life guilt; unwanted pregnancies are allowed to grow to fruition and thus wind up being treated like a burden, instead of a blessing.there's already a surplus of children in the fostercare and adoption systems! there are also the girls that keep their babies thinking it'll be something like a pet and when it turns out cramping their lives and social habits, resentment grows...
there are also well mature adults that expect the baby to come out like a little adult and they are dissappointed in how much work it really takes. also, some adults seem just fine on the surface but they're really not, i mean mentally ill people. a person can live a balanced functional life and never know that they have any problems. then along comes baby, add in sleep depravation and baby's screaming jags and all the other difficulties along the way. after a while things will come slowly bubbling to the surface. then before you know it, the child suffers

save the baby and the mother too.
when you see alot of this on a first hand basis every day, your opinions and ideas get stricter by the day. but to tell the truth, i've felt this way since i was young.

my daughter's life is much better than i could have made it at the time. and my son and i are where we should be. i understand and appreciate what a precious gift his little life is. there's no resentment only gratitude. he doesn't cramp my lifestyle; he is my lifestyle. every child should have a mother that lives with and for them everyday.
isn't that a child's right?

people worry so much about mother's rights; what about baby's rights.

I HAVE NEVER MENTIONED MONEY IN ANY OF THIS!!!!!
i myself live on a modest paycheck!
i am talking about maturity levels and emotional availability. i am stating a case against the abusers and the people who would be by today's standards considdered unfit (if the states ever get off their collective butts to enforce these protocols) i have seen with my own two eyes: a mother declared unfit, has her children removed from her home and placed in PROTECTIVE CUSTODY, not just in fostercare. this woman got pregnant again (without a lingering thought of the two that were just taken) and the kicker of it all, she was allowed to keep this new baby even though she had beaten and starved the other two!
THIS IS THE WORLD WE LIVE IN PEOPLE!!!! WAKE UP!!!!
HOW CAN THIS BE OKAY WITH ALL OF YOU???? THE SYSTEM IN PLACE TODAY IS BROKEN, THE GOVERNMENT PAYS WOMEN TO NEGLECT AND ABUSE THEIR CHILDREN. YOU ALL SAY IT'S THEIR RIGHT! WHERE ARE THE CHILDREN'S RIGHTS IN ALL OF THIS? I ASK YOU.............

Answer 1

Yes, I fully agree. The questions at this site are evidence enough that people can no longer be trusted with the responsability of creating life.

The world needs more preconceptives, more sexual and psychological education, and less religious dogmatism and bigotry.
Until that happens, we should take the "hard way" and start penalizing the social irresponsability of those that engage in unsafe sex without being ready to confront its consequences.

Answer 2

I doubt the US Government is striving to be like China. You can only have so many girls, and you can have unlimited boys. Sort of unfair, isn't it? There was a time I believe when female fetuses were aborted just because they were female.


Besides -- What's going to prevent people from going outside, having sex and getting pregnant? You can't control people's natural right of reproduction. I know it would make things so much easier to deal with, but it's just not possible. Even if we did, and if people had sex 'illegally", and the hospitals took their children away, we'd have a surplus of children in foster care and orphanages. That doesn't seem too fair for the children, now does it?


There isn't an answer except let the human beings do what human beings do best -- Kill and reproduce.




We're animals. It's our inborn need to have children. Would you limit the children a tiger could have? How about a lion? Why or why not? They have the same basic needs we do.


Food.
Water.
Shelter.
Reproduction.

Answer 3

I completely agree with what your saying. I hope that one day society will take a look at things and realize there is an obvious flaw in the system that we have now. I do think that it makes it difficult to license it because people are going to have sex and be irresponsible regardless and alot of children are born as mistakes in some peoples eyes and there really isn't a way to control it completely in terms of us as a society unless we lock everyone up and then when we think that they are fit to be parents let me pro-create which I see as being highly unlikely.

Answer 4

Well - the sorrowful aspect is that you just can not get a puppy from the pound with out pictures and being spayed or neutered and tags, and so forth. But any person will have a little one with not anything, surely not anything. I believe sorry for you that you just suppose being pregnant is a punishment - why did you could have your moment little one then? Are you an undeserving dad or mum? Should you could have been screened and established?

Answer 5

I think with the right intentions there may be a good point to what you are saying.

The law would have to be very specific as to what would exclude a couple from procreating.

Answer 6

If pregnancy was licensed, people would be forced to have an abortion against their will. It would be better to mandate sterilization in certain instances.