Prospective Parents Should Have A License

Today, obtaining a license is necessary for a many activities including: driving, hunting, fishing, scuba diving, teaching, and practicing medicine, to name a few. In recent debate, licensing another aspect in our lives has arisen: parenting. Although incompetent parents exist, the need for a license to parent is an unethical and unconstitutional requirement that is impossible to regulate both before and after the birth of the child.

We are required to obtain a license before you get married and driving a motor vehicle, yet we aren’t required a license to become parents. Should people have to obtain a license to become parents? Is it really safe to leave an infant or 2-4 year old left with a possibly aggressive or inexperienced parent? Children aren’t very safe left alone with an inexperienced parent , ESPECIALLY if they are single or by themselves. People should have to get a license for several reasons: Abuse, most people are poorly prepared, and some people (like teens or some adults) influence their kids . Not just with drug or alcohol , but just their personality can greatly influence them.

Personal liberty is guaranteed by the Constitution. Another important right of common law is to choose. This is enough to allow women to decide whether or not to stop pregnancy. Without this interpretation the whole concept of personal liberty would mean little to women. A man can easily break the relations when he finds out about a pregnancy. He makes his choice, and no one doubts it. It is fair to say then that a woman should have the same choice. Pregnancy and childbirth may determine if a woman ever gets an education, and as a result, if she will be able to support herself and a child. Women may also find themselves pregnant in the beginning or middle of the career. Or, couples choose abortion to start their families when they feel ready and able to raise their children. Finally, in some situations, giving birth may result in a medical complication, trauma, or even woman's death. At a global scale, abortions contribute to the resolving of the overpopulation problem, potentially the worst problem of the coming generations. Meanwhile, only in the US over a million of abortions are done every year.

Abortions will always happen and keeping it legal would make it safer. It is a simple question between medical attention or terrifying home methods. “women who do not want to be pregnant will try to end their pregnancies… Rat poison,

Imagine someone told you that you could only to wear a certain pair of jeans. Someone else decided for you whether or not you can wear any other pair of pants. How would that make you feel, how would you react? What if those circumstances involved a baby and someone said you had to carry and give birth to it even if you don’t want to. Society has benefitted through the access government approved abortions clinics giving women the opportunity to overcome teenage pregnancy, significantly reducing health risks, and defeating after effects of rape.

Woman’s rights in the U.S have been an ongoing problem since the beginning of time, having full control of their own bodies is a right that should not be taken away from them. Proponents of this, view that women deserve the rights to their bodies and fertility agree that no one has the right to force a woman to undergo pregnancy, with all the discomfort and health risks that come along with it. In today’s society, having the right to control your own fertility and reproduction is essential; some may use to reproduce while others use it to destroy. Nonetheless, the beauty of the situation is having their own option to do as they please.

Whether it be from a night gone wrong to a freak accident, babies can happen. And after a woman is pregnant, she’s faced with a choice: go through hours of painful childbirth to either give up her child or keep it and have to support it financially, or she can have an abortion. However, states are trying to restrict the conditions a woman must be eligible for in order to have an abortion. In response to this, I’m proposing a 28th Amendment: “The states cannot restrict how late an abortion is done, how it is done, who it is done to, or anything else pertaining to a woman’s right to a legal abortion.” The purpose of this amendment is to provide women with a security that they can abort a child no matter how late the pregnancy is, or why it is being conducted. Not only is rape a huge player in abortions, but so are accidental pregnancies, previously believing you were ready for a baby, then having a financial problem or having an ultrasound conducted and seeing that your child has a mental condition that would make it harder to live than is humane. Some places have tried to deny women their right to an abortion, and therefore caused more harm than necessary (ex. Savita Halappanavar, which will be later touched on). Passing this Amendment is necessary because abortions are conducted for many different reasons (not just rape or incest), multiple states are trying to clamp down these rights, and being

Department of Reproductive Health and Research said,”What we see is that the law does not influence a woman’s decision to have an abortion.If there’s an unplanned pregnancy, it does not matter if the law is restrictive or liberal”.Equally important is the things that can occur to unwanted children that come to this

The principles for this section is to ensure that children have the benefit of two parents through shared parenting, to encourage agreement between both parents about future parenting and ensure that the child’s right

Over 99% of pregnancies result in both partners willingly participating in sexual relations. “All who are genuinely committed to the advancement of women can and must offer women who are pregnant, frightened, and alone a better alternative than the destruction of her own unborn child”. From 1973 to 2003, there was over 39 million documented American lives that have been ended due to abortion. If the mother's life is not in danger then abortion should not be an option. Being able to carry a child is a natural condition, there are some inconveniences but most are socially active, capable of working, traveling, and exercising almost to the day the baby is born. There are alternatives like adoption and childcare, but you should be smart and take responsibility for what you did. This information is important because it tells you about alternatives and that having a child is

How would most people feel if the United States enforced laws about having kids? If we as a society don’t change either how we live or the laws involving children, we will have generations of people using Uncle Sam as a crutch. The rate of births among women ages 15 to 44 increased by 1% from 2013 to 2014, the first increase since 2007, which might be a trend that if we don’t fix this problem soon so many more might grow up that way. One in five children receives food stamps or some kind of aid so says the census bureau. Mandatory laws on having children should be enforced in the United States because of the high amount of government supported children, and the number of questionable parent(s).

Firstly, Ms. Fernandez makes her argument in support of parenting education by using the illustration of new drivers obtaining a license. New drivers are equipped with a learner’s permit and instruction, likewise new parents must be equipped with the skills they need. While some people might believe that it’s a “nanny state” stepping on the rights of individuals, but there are basic information about infants and children that every parent is required to know, remarked

In 1973, the US Supreme Court declared abortion a nationwide fundamental right through a trial called Roe vs. Wade and protected this right underneath the Fourteenth Amendment, more specifically, the right to privacy. A basic human right, especially one outlined by the Supreme Court, must never run at risk or threat chiefly because not everyone agrees with it. Under no circumstances should a pregnancy ever adjudge mandatory. Abortion is a Constitutional right and as a nation we must fight to give the right and freedom of safe abortions to women all around the nation, make birth control and sex education accessible to women, and raise awareness about the topic itself. (LawCornell)

In Hugh Lafollette’s paper “Licensing Parents” he talks about the need for government licensing of parents. His argument states that for any activity that is harmful to others, requires competence, and has a reliable procedure for determining competence, should require licensing by the government. This argument relates to parenting because it can be harmful to children, requires competence to raise children, and we can assume that a reliable procedure can be formulated. Therefore, parenting should require licensing by the government. I agree with Lafollette and shall focus on supporting him by addressing the most practical objections: “There is no reliable procedure for identifying competent

To begin with, one of the biggest dilemmas today is about abortion and whether or not women should have one, rates have been getting lower throughout the years due to the help of birth control. Since the year of 1975 to now “the number of abortions in the United States dropped under one million (958,700 in 2013 and 926,200 in 2014” (Jones, Jerman). It is still continuing to decrease now, from the age between 15-44 the Guttmacher Institute recorded “the lowest rate ever” (Guttmacher Institute) which is a “14% decline from 2011” (Guttmacher Institute). People think birth control has to do with these drops since it is one of the biggest factors to prevent it from happening in the first place. There are laws that are trying to prohibit abortion yet abortion is not even a problem since it just keeps getting lower and lower throughout the years “the US has reached a lower level in 2014 than in any other since the procedure first became legal” (Redden). Most of the women to get these abortions however are around their 20s “aged 20-24 obtained 34% of all abortions” (Guttmacher Institute). As a lot of people may know the republican party is not a fan of birth control so if they were to find out that it had been one of the main factors they would go on a rampage but there is no way of telling what they are due too, it is possible for it to be due to the drives or birth control depending on the person of course. I would want these young women at the age of 16 to be allowed access to