Should we allow destitute women to have children?

Question

... knowing the expenses of raising the child will have to be paid by you and me? Do these mothers have a right to your hard earned money?

It's a simple YES or NO question: Do these mothers too poor to raise a child have a right to reach into your bank account to do so? What gives them the right to take your money away from you?

Answer 1

Tough question, but self-control is not working and people are bearing children who are destined for childhoods full of poverty despair.

It is a tough decision, but we cannot continue to have people failing to be responsible and having the taxpayer pick up the tab, and worse, subjecting many kids to lives of poverty and dim hopes. I don't know the answer and whatever I would choose would be criticized by a fair number of people who would scream that I am violating someone's rights to bear kids into a miserable life, and likely to an unfit parent.

Answer 2

No, let's just give them all mandatory birth control. OH WAIT, we already tried that. In 1991-1993, judges sentenced women convicted of welfare fraud to recieve Norplant implants, a type of birth control, against their will. These Norplant implants caused a variety of health problems in the women who recieved the implants, including cancerous lesions. Not to mention that they didn't actually prevent pregnancy--instead, they caused miscarriages and other abnormalities.

Saying that poor women should be forcibly prevented from having children is tantamount to saying that they have no right to make decisions concerning their bodies and their reproductive choices. Instead of legislating classist, biased laws, how about educating women about adequate birth control and allowing them to make their own informed decisons? You ask if we should "allow" poor women to have children, as if it were our choice to make.

On top of that, there really is no such thing as a welfare queen, who manges to leave a fabulous life on taxpayer dollars. That was a rhetorical device used by Ronald Reagan to justify cutting welfare benefits--in actuality, a welfare check isn't nearly enough to live even a DECENT life, and the vast majority of people would rather work. However, they are frequently unable to obtain jobs, either because of the lack of availability of decent childcare, disability, or other preventative factors.
But obviously, those factors don't mean anything. Women choose poverty, because raising five children on four hundred dollars a month is such an easy, great life.

Answer 3

See.

I've been saying that it's only a matter of time before people start proposing laws dictating who can and who cannot become or remain pregnant.

All that needs to happen is to get the Supreme Court to get rid of that pesky little rule about bodily integrity and reproductive choice being a fundamental right. If that happens, I'll bet anyone a dinner that it won't be more than two years before some state enacts a law like what's being proposed here.

Answer 4

Were you thinking of making a destitute woman pregnant?
You should be more concerned about giving destitute women homes, you fascist! Do you even have a job, Adolf?

Answer 5

Poor women can fall in love, get pregnant and have a baby - the same way any other person can. We are not on the AFDC program anymore - but TANF, which means TEMPORARY Aid for Needy Families. These people are given job training, help with job placement, and sent to work. They are not sitting on their butts waiting for the mailman to bring them their welfare check for long.

Answer 6

How are we going to stop that the government can not force a woman to have the pill injection or to be sterilized it is her right to choose and after you can not say you can not have any money because the child will suffer

Answer 7

No. Neither should we allow destitute men to father children.

Answer 8

I think that, if someone is already on welfare, they should not be able to get additional benefits for having additional children. They are already on welfare, using our money, and shouldn't have more children until they are able to afford those children themselves.

There needs to be a definite end date for the recipients of welfare. It isn't meant to be a lifelong income stream. It's meant to be a temporary fix until the person is able to support themselves.

Answer 9

Should we ALLOW destitute women to have children? What audacity!!! This is still America, and thank God, so far, there are no such laws.

Answer 10

What about the men?!
I say OFF WITH THEIR *****!!!
That's what we need to do to the men who put their uncovered ***** inside the destitute women in the first place!