Indeed, I’ve asked myself whether the libertarian perspective of protecting people from the state regulating procreation was relevent today when such a right largely only applies one-sidedly to women and backed by a slew of unconditional socialist goodies. Do men really need to worry if the state creates a license requirement for parenthood similar to driving a car or owning a gun?

Surprisingly, most middle class women I talk to probably would wholeheartedly support such a licensing scheme. Men already are labeled as deadbeat dads for siring children they can’t afford to support and most women don’t like the idea of their taxes going to pay (meow) for other women’s offspring.

In the next two decades at most, men will have technology such as RISUG or even hormonal therapies available to control reproduction. Combined with the total collapse of puritannical sexual mores, the current system of unwed motherhood being bankrolled politically through child-support will collapse along wtih feminism overall.

I do agree with Paul that Denise’s way of discussing the point is a bit gross. I think we can find ways to discuss this idea, intellectually, without resorting to such visuals.