Ardy, just clarifying - are you saying that you think it's okay for the state to decide when a woman can become pregnant, as long as it's reversible?
I am trying to make sure I'm not misreading you.
Julia
I am sorry that I conflated many thoughts and issues.
I was not necessarily writing in support of any position on the issues at hand.
As separate thoughts, it occurred to me that if the proposed "sterilization" were reversible it might change the considerations. I personally could imagine reversible sterilization under the circumstances that we have been discussing.
I moved on from the above thought to consider in my mind how something like the above might be applied to men. I do not object to that at all but there would often be many complexities in identifying the father. Not to mention that if the father would agree to an abortion, maybe he would be cheaply off the hook.
And from that thought I moved on to the idea that many of the irresponsible fathers either are, or have been in prison at some time. And that a DNA database could be accumulated that would make it easier to identify such men.
And from there I moved on to the a thought comparable to the three strikes laws... which might mean after two criminal strikes, a person would have to submit to reversible sterilization. And I was thinking that that form of "punishment is certainly no more inhumane that what we already do to people in the prison system.
Again, I am sorry that I was not more specific in these sort of drifting thoughts
