> But what I find repugnant is people who think that their right to reproduce outweighs any toll that might take on the rest of us.
This is an argument against entitlements, not for micro-managing peoples' reproduction.
> The fact is that people are wont to be irresponsible. Loading them up with unearned, undeserved freedoms does little other than
encourage this.
People will be irresponsible whether they have certain freedoms or not.
> Every single day I see people with four, five, six children and no job.
Sure. Some people are mooches. Sometimes people also have jobs then lose them. Or have a partner who has a job and that person bails.
> They live in public housing, for which they pay a pittance, and for every child they have, they get more money. That's fair?
Children also cost money. Someone who's in public housing isn't exactly turning a profit by having more children. Should they be having more children if they can't afford to provide for the ones they have? Definitely not. The answer is not some nutso policy of forced abortions.
> Or I see people, friends of mine, even, who were simply too lazy to protect themselves and are now in court month in and month
out because they have a child with someone whom they hate.
And your ideas fix this how?
> Or I see the people I grew up with, who try to rescue their loveless marriages by having kids...because that's what you're supposed
to do.
Uh. No, that's not what you're supposed to do. That's actually pretty stupid. Why should everyone suffer because your friends are stupid?
> I need a license to catch a fish, but anyone can have a baby? WTF?
Because when you fish you're fishing in a public lake. Ergo it belongs to the state. Ergo the state can require you to have a license.
How are you going to prevent people having babies anyway? Forced sterilization? Forced abortions? And neither of those strike you as being particularly...wrong?