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Should there be laws restricting who can have / raise children, or is it everybody's right to choose?

For example:

Should people with an extremely low IQ or a history of severe mental health issues (such as attempted suicide) be sterilised?

Why or why not?

Best answer will be awarded to the most thought provoking and / or honest answer that makes good points for or against.

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  • K8
    Lv 7
    2 years ago
    Favourite answer

    To have children is a huge responsibility. Those who want to have them need to make the choice carefully and think about the children and their welfare. The adults need to be very ready to be GOOD parents - ready emotionally, ready mentally, ready physically, and ready financially. And they need to be ready to put in the effort/work over the long time period required to be GOOD parents. If not ready in all ways to raise children they should choose to abstain.

    I do not think there should be laws about this. There are already too many laws restricting freedoms, I am not at all for more laws restricting freedoms.

  • Anonymous
    1 year ago

    Yes there should be a test that people should have to pass first to see if they are qualified.

  • Marvin
    Lv 7
    2 years ago

    Well there should be, but the ACLU will not allow it. It is currently illegal to sterilize anyone with mental illness, or retardation. Yup that is the law. It is a USA thing.

    Also any poor drug addict can get fertility treatments on the state.

  • Anonymous
    2 years ago

    That's called eugenics and its no good.

  • Anonymous
    2 years ago

    Yes, it should be illegal for everyone to be a breeder and everyone should be sterilized. That is to rid the planet of the biggest parasites there are.

  • 2 years ago

    I think that if you didn’t have the right to choose, we’d have nazis again with racial purity. No one has the right to sterilize humans like animals because they were suicidal once or have autism... I happen to work with an autistic girl who is fully functional and homeschools her three kids (she works third shift). She is a good mom despite her mental health

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