by B.J. Tyrrell

Created on: April 26, 2008

Can we as U.S. citizens invite the government to have regulation over such a personal aspect of our lives as to how many children we should have? Absolutely not. It goes against constitutional freedoms, assumes that the population is not intelligent enough when properly educated to make an informed decision, would create a government policy that would require funding and be open to abuses.

The United States was founded on the idea that certain rights and freedoms belong to the people and not to the government. Although a more accurate statement would be that this country was founded on the idea that the people should have freedom from government rule over their personal beliefs and choices. While this idea at first was treated with hypocrisy considering the atrocities committed against Native Americans and Africans by the U.S. government and with the prejudice shown to different groups at different times that still continues to this day, we should not transgress from the original idea of what America should be. Any policy governing the number of children a person can have is in direct violation of certain freedoms rendered by the Constitution of the United States of America. An example would be freedom of religion. Some religious groups do not advocate artificial birth control or abortion. Neither of which could fail to exist under any government policy towards population regulation which is just a politically correct way to say control. This would not only violate religious rights under the constitution but the right of the pursuit of happiness in general.

Regulating population growth can be done by U.S. citizens themselves with the only input from the government being the availability of family planning. Our government has enforced policies to other nations such as the Global Gag order to undermine their family planning education. This policy denies government aid to foreign family planning agencies if they counsel about abortions or provide abortions. Depending on who is in the white house, this order has been lifted and reinstated. This is another point to make for educating ourselves on our political candidates and their stance on the issues. Handing this over to the government is saying that we are not intelligent enough to make an informed decision. Inform the public of what overpopulation will mean for themselves and for the children they bring into this world. The government already makes the decision for what the majority of our children will learn

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