Originally Posted by JumpinJesus

The shesus and I were talking about this the other day when one of us said, "She shouldn't be allowed to have that many kids!" This turned the conversation into the practice of forced sterilization and should we - as a supposed free society - be in the business of dictating who can and can't have kids and how many kids a woman may have.

The conversation went in the direction as to who would determine who got to have children and who didn't, how many children the fortunate (or unfortunate depending on your point of view) were allowed to have, and what the consequences should be for having a child when you deemed unallowed.

It was a very interesting conversation.