Sterilizing people at birth, and allowing them to reverse it when they have a parenting license

[Midnight FM]

When people are born as babies in a hospital, they are sterilized at birth. Once they reach legal adulthood, they are allowed to have their sterilization reverse if they are willing and able to obtain a parenting license.

If this was doable, it would have many advantages, such as:

*Establishing some set of standards required to become a parent - Currently, there are no requirements to become a parent, other than to have functioning sex organs. One has to demonstrate more requirements to earn a driver's license or apply for a part-time position at McDonald's than to create a baby.

*Eliminating abortion. Abortions are often the result of unplanned pregnancy, and unplanned pregnancy would be less likely to occur.

*Eliminating child abuse and neglect. Abusive and negligent individuals, such as those addicted to drugs would be less likely to qualify for a parenting license

*Eliminating poverty and the need for state welfare systems. Children being born to parents who are unable or unwilling to financially support them is a source of poverty and creates a need for welfare systems to take care of the children in question.

While I can see disadvantages to this proposal (such as some social conservatives fearing that it would encourage people to be more sexually libertine, despite the fact that people do so anyway even when they aren't prepared to have a child, as starving children in Africa prove), I think it's worth discussing.

 

[Monoculturalist]

This concept would fundamentally contradict the notion of a free society, but it would be cost-effective if nothing else....

 

[Midnight FM]

This concept would fundamentally contradict the notion of a free society, but it would be cost-effective if nothing else....

Is there a right to procreate in the Constitution?

 

[Monoculturalist]

Is there a right to procreate in the Constitution?

While it isn't specifically mentioned in the Constitution, our legal system usually presumes some level of bodily autonomy for the public. Obviously, bodily autonomy is a concept that can vary broadly in what it means (like when abortion is brought up), but most of society seems to agree that each person has a right to breed.

That being said, I'm not ethically against this proposal in a society that doesn't specifically prioritize freedom. For example, you could probably implement something like this in certain African countries, and it wouldn't go against the spirit of their laws.

 

[luiza]

Just a matter of time before it arrives --- faster if you allow the Loonies to be in charge .

But it could generate good revenue if you charge , say , $10 000 for the licence per brat .

Similarly , store Sperm from the notionally most gifted and direct its use etc etc .
That should generate bleating and rage -- to start with .

 

[Unkotare]

When people are born as babies in a hospital, they are sterilized at birth. Once they reach legal adulthood, they are allowed to have their sterilization reverse if they are willing and able to obtain a parenting license.

If this was doable, it would have many advantages, such as:

*Establishing some set of standards required to become a parent - Currently, there are no requirements to become a parent, other than to have functioning sex organs. One has to demonstrate more requirements to earn a driver's license or apply for a part-time position at McDonald's than to create a baby.

*Eliminating abortion. Abortions are often the result of unplanned pregnancy, and unplanned pregnancy would be less likely to occur.

*Eliminating child abuse and neglect. Abusive and negligent individuals, such as those addicted to drugs would be less likely to qualify for a parenting license

*Eliminating poverty and the need for state welfare systems. Children being born to parents who are unable or unwilling to financially support them is a source of poverty and creates a need for welfare systems to take care of the children in question.

While I can see disadvantages to this proposal (such as some social conservatives fearing that it would encourage people to be more sexually libertine, despite the fact that people do so anyway even when they aren't prepared to have a child, as starving children in Africa prove), I think it's worth discussing.

Troll ^^^