NOBODY CAN PLAY GOD

Relatives of baby Molly, the little girl born addicted to drugs last year,
say the government should be able to force women in its methadone program
to use birth control.

It's an understandable argument from a family in anguish, compelling to
anyone thinking of the horror with which they have had to deal.

But it's also wrong. The government has no business telling women whether
they can bear children, no matter what the consequences.

Who would get to play God? And where would the line be drawn? After the
addicts, do we force contraception on the mentally ill? On criminals?
Welfare moms? How about those idiots you see shrieking abuse at their
cowering children in shopping malls; they're bad mothers, breeding
dysfunction.

The decision to conceive belongs to the mother, not the government.