Reply #160: Roe v Wade was about privacy.

[Pithlet]

Not about compelling anyone to be parents. The whole issue wasn't women shouldn't be compelled to become a parent. The issue was and still is that women have the same right to privacy over their own bodies as anyone else, and that privacy extends to deciding whether to terminate a pregnancy. People who are compelled to meet their financial obligation toward their offspring aren't being compelled to be parents any more than compelling me to pay my taxes for the local school compels me to be an educator.

The issue wasn't reduced to money. It's a fact of life that raising a child costs money. There's no point to pretending that's not true, and pretending it's not true will only create more children living in poverty. No reduction needed to come to that conclusion. Society has deemed this an obligation because the alternative is more poor children, and that negatively impacts all of society, in the same way that allowing people out of their financial obligation to provide money for the local schools would negatively impact those schools, and society. If anyone is doing any reduction, it's those who view child support as a punitive measure that forces a person to be a parent.