"Well most things are easier if you are rich. But if you really want a child you may just have to sacrifice some of the other things in your life that cost money.
"You might be interested in some of the things we have discussed when we considered licensing parents. One was the carbon footprint that you just mentioned. Another is that when there is a chance to harm others some kind of training and licensing should be required. That's why doctors, pharmacists, drivers, teachers, psychologists and lawyers need licenses.
"We already require other kinds of clearances for adoptive parents, child care facilities, foster parents and youth coaches so why shouldn't we require them for the people who are going to be around child the most?"
-" But how would you determine what makes good parents?”
“In our discussions we are really looking at eliminating bad parents. We think that is much easier than trying to determine exactly what criteria would make a good parent. Maybe as science advances it will be possible to make such determinations. Right now we only have some indications--but they are very good indicators. But this is why we don't have licenses for parents yet. And we may never have to them.”
AFFIRMATIVE ACTION
-"I think you are in opposition to a basic human right in requiring financial responsibility for all parents. What if you had a poor couple that could be very loving parents? Don't you have some program, like affirmative action, that would allow them to have a child?”