When Does A Woman Not Have the Right to Have Children?

It all depends on your ideology.

If you're one of those people who think that people should stand on their own two feet - earn their own money and pay their own way, then a great portion of the population - those people on welfare - have absolutely no right to have children. Get an education, get a job, get off welfare, then you have have the right to have kids, as many kids as you want and can afford.

If a woman is on welfare, and already has six children, she has absolutely no right to have any more, especially not if she has to get them through in vitro fertilization! Who the hell paid for this woman's operation, that's what I want to know!

Eight children - you know they're all in the hospital, each one probably costing $1,000 a day in care. This woman doesn't have that money, her family doesnt have that money.... so the tax rolls are being sucked dry to pay for this woman's children.

And once they go home... who's going to supply the money to buy their food? Their clothing? And so on.

One cannot let helpless and innocent children starve, of course. That's the kicker, that's how these religious types around the world get their hooks into everything. "The poor you shall always have with you, they were put here in order to keep us charitable."

You got that right. It's called the welfare business. People make a great deal of money running charities to take care of people who can't - and won't - take care of themselves. Average people like you and me, and certainly some wealthy people also, donate money to these charities, so that the administration can live high off the upper most part of the hog while they dole out 60% of donations to the people who need it.

The only way to end poverty is for poor people to stop having children --- until they get an education, until they get good jobs. It's a lot easier to stop being poor if you only have two mouths to feed - you and your spouse, rather than two adult mouths and four kids (or as is more likely, one adult mouth and four kids, each by a father whose names the mother does not even know). (And since we're in the midst of an overpopulation explosion, I'm all for people not having kids at all. I'd rather see a mile long strip of veldt with a lion in it, casually ripping a gazelle apart, than a mile long strip of cheap apartments, or even well-to-do apartments, full of drugged out individuals who will never accomplish anything in their lives except consume food, alcohol, and valuable oxygen, and who have to go out and rob and steal to feed their habits.)

Here's the article that set off this rant:

http://news-briefs.ew.com/2009/02/octomom-loses-p.html