But you're totally fine with your taxes paying for a child where the parents chose to get pregnant without having the ability to financially support it?
This is precisely the "4th grade-level" discourse that was referenced a couple levels above. There is simply no part of this debate that is this simple.
No, I'd prefer not to have to do that either. That's not a choice, though, is it? People are gonna have kids when they aren't ready for them, it's reality.
Here's the simplicity. In making a child, two people are more responsible than anyone else. Both of those people, once the child is born, have a greater responsibility financially for that child than anyone else. Letting one of them leave and abrogate that responsibility would unequally apply the responsibility to the rest of society, and that is unacceptable to me.
Accidents happen, mistakes happen, bad things happen, all that can be dealt with. There's no need to enshrine a right to abandon.
This is precisely the "4th grade-level" discourse that was referenced a couple levels above. There is simply no part of this debate that is this simple.