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Entry: Don't we owe them something?

SWFw/Attitude says SWFw/Attitude: Don't we owe them something?:

I leave there every Monday night with either a smile on my face or an ache in my heart. Either of which is a perfectly understandable result, I'm sure. The question that vexes me tonight (and many Monday nights) is why do we continue to let unfit parents procreate?

I know that we live in a free society and what I might suggest seems so fascist but don't we, as the civilized beings that we think we are, owe it to kids to somehow monitor this? If the government is going to intervene at all in these types of situations, is it really so bad to make a semi-permanent birth control device (say depo-provera or norplant, for example) mandatory until it is verified that the parent is again (or for the first time ever) qualified to raise his/her children? Is that really fascist?