Feb
6

Ellen Goodman on Nadya Suleman

Ellen Goodman, Boston Globe  asks:

Does anyone have a right to tell anyone else how many kids to have? Can only people who can afford them bear children? Do you need a husband to have a baby? These are questions that make us feel queasy when we are talking about old-fashioned families. But they take on a new flavor in the unregulated wild west of fertility technology

Does anybody have a right to tell a woman how many children she can have?   I do,  when I am the one expected to pay for her children.  Nadya Suleman’s right to have children stops when her hand reachs for the taxpayer’s wallet.

Old-fashioned ideas came about and stayed about for good reasons.    They worked.  

Hat tip:  Kathryn Jean Lopez, National Review.

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One Response to “Ellen Goodman on Nadya Suleman”

  1. Eric Florack
    February 7th, 2009 at 14:34

    Nadya Suleman’s right to have children stops when her hand reachs for the taxpayer’s wallet..

    Alas, that is one yardstick that Goodman will never use, either for berths or abortions.