Ellen Goodman, Boston Globe [1] 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 [2].