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I might be in the minority here, but I don't see "reproduction" as a right.

Sorry, not sorry, I've just known too many people who grew up with parents who didn't know what they were doing/didn't want kids. I know too many abuse victims and kids born drug-addicted. Childhood loneliness, depression and stress are all going up and schools STILL don't have proper funding/distribution.

All of that aside, whenever you ask ANYONE if they're a good parent they will say "yes". 9 times out of 10 ignorant people think they're going "fine" while their children live in constant distress. People, especially Americans, tend to think that children only require clothes, food and getting to school on time. They don't realise/care that children are people, equal in value to their parents but brimming with potential.
Children have emotional needs. Children need to be nurtured in a way not everyone has the capacity to provide.

It disgusts me when I hear women talking about having children as if it's nothing. They talk about making a new person, a human being, condemned to live and suffer and die well after them, all because they "wanted a baby". It's an absolutely selfish stance to take, especially when you can't provide what that child needs.

No one asks to be born, but once you're here you're here. The best we can do for anyone born into this hellscape of a reality is try to mitigate the suffering they'll inevitably encounter through education, nurturing and providing a healthy lifestyle.
And that's not something most parents care to think about.

If you had your way, who would be allowed to have children?

When Jerry was 11, he was bullied at school, tortured, almost drowned to death, sexully abused by his mother's boyfriend, and got into drugs at 14. He killed a drug dealer/pimp with a gun, he abused animals to the point where they ran away from home and got PTSD because of him. At 14, he tried to r@ape one of his female friends. Jerry was able to get off drugs, start a business, rent a place, forgive the people who hurt him, and even date and love a girl who used to bully him in the past. He even stopped one of his friends from trying to kill himself. Jerry felt awful for what he did and every day he still struggles to forgive himself.

Personally, I fully support planned parenthood clinics because they AREN'T JUST ABOUT ABORTION! They do mammograms, testing for STD/STIs, and they do birth control. I also believe that if someone wants to have an abortion, they should be able to! Would you rather a child be abused and end up dead or sold for drugs/money or it not have to suffer through it at all? And I know not all but a lot of foster homes and orphanages are terrible.

What do you guys think?