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Originally Posted by kazbates

I'm doing my part by driving a hybrid

You actually think you're doing your part by driving a hybrid. The automobile industry tricked you.

I like my car and do not want to give it up.

Said the cancer patient, "I like smoking and I don't want to give it up."

Ok, I'm being too hard on you. I don't really expect you to give up your car, and I applaud you for buying a hybrid instead of a gas guzzler. You're acting reasonably considering the circumstances. But you should recognize that this isn't the ideal solution. You should vote for a party that proposes to make fundamental changes to the transportation system and the urban landscape that will allow you to do without a car more often, instead of a party that proposes tax incentives for hybrids.

Because people have a right to have children.

Is than an unqualified right? I don't think people have an unconditional right to have children. In my opinion, state-subsidized fertility treatments are not within the scope of that right.

Why should those people in other countries that you mentioned be allowed to have children

See previous quote: "Because people have a right to have children."

Besides, what I proposed is grounded in the right for those children to eat, not in the right of their parents to have children.

someone who waits until they feel the time is right for them, not be allowed to have them?

I just don't want to pay for it with my taxes. These people wait until they're nearly infertile because they want to be "financially secure" first, then the government pays for their fertility treatments. Talk about having your cake...